Callimachus, Hymn to Delos

ἡνίκα δʼ Ἀπόλλωνι γενέθλιον οὖδας ὑπέσχες,

But when you offered your soil for Apollo's birth,

τοῦτό τοι ἀντημοιβὸν ἁλίπλοοι οὔνομʼ ἔθεντο,

the seafarers gave you this name in return,

οὕνεκεν οὐκέτʼ ἄδηλος ἐπέπλεες, ἀλλʼ ἐνὶ πόντου

because you no longer sailed about unseen, but in the waves

κύμασιν Αἰγαίοιο ποδῶν ἐνεθήκαο ῥίζας.

of the Aegean sea you planted the roots of your feet.

οὐδʼ Ἥρην κοτέουσαν ὑπέτρεσας· ἡ μὲν ἁπάσαις

Nor did you shrink from Hera in her anger. She, at all

δεινὸν ἐπεβρωμᾶτο λεχωίσιν αἳ Διὶ παῖδας

the women in childbed who [bore] children to Zeus, roared terribly,