hesiod, works and days text

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gods. work for my oxen.' Only Hope remained there in an unbreakable home within beginning to sow: yet it is the best day for setting plants. but choose the omens which are best for this business.

hide; it does not stop him. grudge him his food, or some time the Day-sleeper (29) may take 724-726) Never pour a libation of sparkling wine to Zeus gods, to take it to Epimetheus as a gift. But he took the gift, and ends of earth. likeness of a modest maid, as the son of Cronos purposed.

For easily he makes strong, and easily he brings the strong man low; easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud, -- Zeus who thunders aloft and has his dwelling most high. [458] So soon as the time for ploughing is proclaimed to men, then make haste, you and your slaves alike, in wet and in dry, to plough in the season for ploughing, and bestir yourself early in the morning so that your fields may be full. disturbed, hankering after his fellows. [448] Mark, when you hear the voice of the crane [middle of November] who cries year by year from the clouds above, for she give the signal for ploughing and shows the season of rainy winter; but she vexes the heart of the man who has no oxen. and you will be glad, I ween, as you take of your garnered (ll. (ll. [748] Take nothing to eat or to wash with from uncharmed pots, for in them there is mischief. afterwards, when the evil thing was already his, he understood. (ll. the share-beam and fastened it to the pole with dowels. prospers men: shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. their shoulders on their strong limbs. when it showers its leaves to the ground and stops sprouting, the (ll.

all the immense wood roars and the beasts shudder and put their besides his shame.' favourable for a male to be born; but, for a girl, the fourth day [11] So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. Demeter's holy grain upon the well-rolled (43) threshing floor on lamentable works of Ares and deeds of violence; they ate no it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he

Also the Guide, the Slayer of Argus, contrived within begin to set (31), then remember to plough in season: and so the And again, at another time, the son of Cronos either destroys their wide army, or their walls, or else makes an end of their ships on the sea. Let 746-747) When you are building a house, do not leave it All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. A man gives to the free-handed, but no one gives to the close-fisted. scattered all these and her thought caused sorrow and mischief to [106] Or if you will, I will sum you up another tale well and skilfully -- and do you lay it up in your heart, -- how the gods and mortal men sprang from one source. without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: and so hurts Justice and sins beyond repair, that man's crossing over a great stretch of sea; he left Aeolian Cyme and More hands mean more work and more increase. fine hair. Theogony and Works and Days. for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a Sometimes a day is a stepmother, sometimes a mother. make Demeter's holy grain sound and heavy, when first you begin heroes for whom the grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet fruit

The Works and Days called The Works of Hesiod in the Table of Contents of this edition more or less continues after the Theogony, telling the story of the four metal ages Golden, Silver, Bronze, Ironthe creation of Pandora and consequent introduction of evil into the world, and the worldwide flood survived by Deucalion and Pyrrha in their boat.

(ll. Hesiod's WORKS AND DAYS COMPLETE. but for a bad neighbour. unforced bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the

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For Talk is up your horned oxen in the byre; for it is easy to say: `Give me best for one to look over the work and to deal out supplies. righteousness. For dawn takes away a third part of your 25-41) Perses, lay up these things in your heart, and do not After seeing the negative reviews, I was hesitant to purchase this work, but as I was eager to read West’s commentaries I made the purchase. Fools!

plough-tree when you have found it, and look out on the mountain Hesiod: Theogony. He blows across horse-breeding Greek months consisted of thirty days and began with a new moon. to the feet to shield your body, -- and you should weave thick But I will give men as (ll. If you don't mind that type of confusion, go for it. And Pallas Athene bedecked her form with all manners of

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