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one who is in want of hospitable gifts and a home, ye who inhabit the lofty city Cyme, beauteous maid, the extreme foot of high-foliaged Sardene, drinking the ambrosial water of the divine river of eddying Hermus, whom immortal Jove begat.

may my feet bear me to the city of merciful men, for their mind is willing and their prudence excellent.

a brazen virgin, and am placed upon the sepulchre of Midas. And as long as water flows, and the lofty trees flourish, and the rising sun gives light, and the shining moon, †and the rivers overflow, and the sea inundates,† remaining here upon the mournful tomb, I will inform the passers-by, that Midas is buried here.