  GODS of the sea; Ino, leaving warm meads for the green, grey-green fastnesses of the great deeps; and Palemon, bright seeker of sea-shaft, hear me. Let all whom the sea loves, come to its altar front, and I who can offer no other sacrifice to thee bring this. Broken by great waves, the wavelets flung it here, this sea-gliding creature, this strange creature like a weed, covered with salt foam, torn from the hillocks of rock. I, Hermonax, caster of nets, plying the sea craft, came on it. Thus to sea god, gift of sea wrack; I, Hermonax, offer it to thee, Ino, and to Palemon. |
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