a mixing-bowl of silver, richly wrought; six measures it held, and in beauty it was far the goodliest in all the earth, seeing that Sidonians, well skilled in deft handiwork, had wrought it cunningly, and men of the Phoenicians brought it over the murky deep, and landed it in harbour, and gave it as a gift to Thoas;
ἓξ δ' ἄρα μέτρα χάνδανεν , αὐτὰρ κάλλει ἐνίκα πᾶσαν ἐπ' αἶαν πολλόν , ἐπεὶ Σιδόνες πολυδαίδαλοι εὖ ἤσκησαν , Φοίνικες δ' ἄγον ἄνδρες ἐπ' ἠεροειδέα πόντον , στῆσαν δ' ἐν λιμένεσσι , Θόαντι δὲ δῶρον ἔδωκαν ·
ἕξ δέ ἄρα μέτρον χανδάνω , ἀτάρ κάλλος νικάω πᾶς ἐπί αἶα πολύς , ἐπεί Σιδόνες πολυδαίδαλος εὖ ἀσκέω , Φοῖνιξ δέ ἄγω ἀνήρ ἐπί ἠεροειδής πόντος , ἵστημι δέ ἐν λιμήν , Θόας δέ δῶρον δίδωμι ·