Maro,” whose father, it is said, Hesiod relates to have been Euanthes the son of Oenopion, the son of
“Such gifts as Dionysus gave to men, a joy and a sorrow both. Who ever drinks to fullness, in him wine becomes violent and binds together his hands and feet, his tongue also and his wits with fetters unspeakable: and soft sleep embraces him.”
“Or like her (Coronis) who lived by the holy Twin
Hills in the plain of Dotium over against Amyrus rich in grapes, and washed her feet in the Boebian lake, a maid unwed.”
him, then, there came a messenger from the sacred feast to goodly Pytho, a crow,® and he told
Hune versum ex Hesiodi Gynaecon transtulit. philosopher of Athens under Hadrian and Antoninus,
unshorn Phoebus of secret deeds, that Ischys son of Elatus had wedded Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas of birth divine.
Concerning Asclepius Hesiod says: father of men and gods was wrath, and from Olympus he smote the son of Leto with a lurid thunderbolt and killed him, arousing the anger of Phoebus.”
But Hesiod. (says that Apollo). would have been cast by Zeus into. Tartarus!; but Leto interceded for him, and he became bondman to a mortal.
“Or like her, beautiful Cyrene, who dwelt in Phthia by the water of Peneus and had the beauty the Graces.”:
He invokes ‘Aristaéus, that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom Hesiod calls the shepherd Apollo.” 2
“But the water. stood all round him, bowed into the semblance of a. mountain,”
This verse he has taken over from Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women.
“Or like her (Antiope) whom Boeotian Hyria nurtured as a maid.”
.» Of. Zethus and Amphion. Hesiod, and some others relate that they built the walls of Thebes by playing. on the lyre.
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