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"And if I said this, it would seem a poor thing and hard to understand."

Thus spake the Boeotian, even Hesiod, servant of the sweet Muses: "whomsoever the immortals honour, the good report of mortals also followeth him."

 

" then it was Zeus took away sense from the heart of Athamas."

"They grind the yellow grain at the mill."

"Then first in Delos did I and Homer, singers both, raise our strain— stitching song in new hymns — Phoebus Apollo with the golden sword, whom Leto bare."

"But starvation on a handful is a cruel thing."

Hesiod says that these Hesperides..., daughters of Night, guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean.

"Aegle and Erythea and ox-eyed Hesperethusa."

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