(4.1755-1764) Thus he spake; and Euphemus made not vain the answer of Aeson's son; but, cheered by the prophecy, he cast the clod into the depths. Therefrom rose up an island, Calliste, sacred nurse of the sons of Euphemus, who in former days dwelt in Sintian Lemnos, and from Lemnos were driven forth by Tyrrhenians and came to Sparta as suppliants; and when they left Sparta, Theras, the goodly son of Autesion, brought them to the island Calliste, and from himself he gave it the name of Thera. But this befell after the days of Euphemus.
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1755 Ὧς ἔφατ': οὐδ' ἁλίωσεν ὑπόκρισιν Αἰσονίδαο
1756 Εὔφημος: βῶλον δέ, θεοπροπίῃσιν ἰανθείς,
1757 ἧκεν ὑποβρυχίην. τῆς δ' ἔκτοθι νῆσος ἀέρθη
1758 Καλλίστη, παίδων ἱερὴ τροφὸς Εὐφήμοιο,
1759 οἳ πρὶν μέν ποτε δὴ Σιντηίδα Λῆμνον ἔναιον,
1760 Λήμνου τ' ἐξελαθέντες ὑπ' ἀνδράσι Τυρσηνοῖσιν
1761 Σπάρτην εἰσαφίκανον ἐφέστιοι: ἐκ δὲ λιπόντας
1762 Σπάρτην Αὐτεσίωνος ἐὺς πάις ἤγαγε Θήρας
1763 Καλλίστην ἐπὶ νῆσον, ἀμείψατο δ' οὔνομα Θήρης
1764 ἐξ ἕθεν. ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν μετόπιν γένετ' Εὐφήμοιο.
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