“AND now, pray, mark all these things well in a wise heart. First, whenever you come to your house, offer good sacrifices to the eternal gods.”
“Decide no suit until you have heard both sides
“A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men, but a stag’s life is four times a crow’s, and a raven’s life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes.”
Some consider that children under the age of seven should not receive a literary education. .-. That Hesiod was of this opinion very many writers affirm who were earlier than the critic Aristophanes; for he was the first to reject the Precepts, in which book this maxim occurs, as a work of that poet.
The verse, however (the saying of Rhadamanthys), is in Hesiod in the Great - Works and is as follows: “If a man sow evil, he shall reap evil increase; if - men do to him as he has done, it will be true justice.”
Some believe that the Silver Race (is to be attributed to) the earth, declaring that in the Great Works Hesiod makes silver to be the family of adie
Hesiod says that those who are called the Idaean Dactyls taught the smelting and tempering of iron in Crete.
Celmis, again, and Damnameneus, the first of the Idaean Dactyls, discovered iron in Cyprus; but bronze-smelting was discovered. by Delas, another Idaean, though Hesiod calls him Scythes.
who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when
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