Scatter, now, some glory on this island, which the lord of Olympus,

Zeus, gave Persephone and bowed his head to assent, the pride of the blossoming earth,

Sicily, the rich, to control under towering cities opulent;

Kronion granted her also

a people in love with brazen warfare,

horsemen; a people garlanded over and again with the golden leaves of olive

Olympian.

Pindar, First Nemean Ode