for at your table first did I eat of the grain of Demeter on the day when you took me captive in the well-ordered orchard, and led me afar from father and from friends, and sell me into sacred Lemnos; and I fetched you the price of an hundred oxen.
πὰρ γὰρ σοὶ πρώτῳ πασάμην Δημήτερος ἀκτὴν ἤματι τῷ ὅτε μ' εἷλες ἐϋκτιμένῃ ἐν ἀλωῇ , καί μ' ἐπέρασσας ἄνευθεν ἄγων πατρός τε φίλων τε Λῆμνον ἐς ἠγαθέην , ἑκατόμβοιον δέ τοι ἦλφον .
παρά γάρ σύ πρῶτος πατέομαι Δημήτηρ ἀκτή ἦμαρ ὁ ὅτε ἐγώ αἱρέω ἐυκτίμενος ἐν ἀλωή , καί ἐγώ περάω ἄνευθε ἄγω πατήρ τε φίλος τε Λῆμνος εἰς ἠγάθεος , ἑκατόμβοιος δέ σύ ἀλφάνω .