For me, the most secure [path?] is the one which when she arrived at the flowery banks of the Nile , [gadfly-driven] Io, bearing the child Epaphus. There [she bore him?] ruler over linen-robed teeming with majestic and greatest mortal from this race Cadmus, son of Agenor, begat Semele in seven-gated Thebes , and she bore the rouser of Bacchants, Dionysus, the and [lord of] garland-[bearing] choruses. Ode 20 (Dithyramb 6) Idas: for the Lacedaemonians 
Once in [spacious] Sparta the golden-haired Lacedaemonian such a song when bold-hearted [Idas] led Marpessa, the maiden with lovely [cheeks], fleeing of death Poseidon, the lord of the sea and to him horses [swift as the wind] to well-built Pleuron , the son of [Ares] with golden shield The rest of the ode is lost.