To Antinous Hermes, Navigator

No one knows the pathways better than you, O Antinous Hermes:

The broad roads and the hidden trails, the crossroads

and the market places, the inns where a traveler may rest,

the springs that are pure and the springs that are poison.

You guide the living and the dead, the mortal and immortal,

whispering the passwords that open all doors. See me safely

through this life, Antinous Hermes, and see me safely

into the next, the life without ending; guide me on all

the highways and by-ways, in all my perplexities,

and let me not venture forth alone, leave me not unprotected,

but always, always, gracious god, bring me home.