Notes on the Works and Days of Hesiod: With Introduction and AppendixUniversity of Chicago, 1918 - 226 pages |
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according Achilles Aeolic Aesch Aeschylus Aidos aorist Aratus Aristoph Asphodel Meadow blessings Blest Buck's Greek Dialects Carm Compare Cronos daemons daughter of Zeus Days Demeter Dike divinities earth Elpis epic epithet equivalent Eurip evils expression Frag genitive gods golden age Hades hemistich Herod heroes Hesiod Hirzel Homer Hymn to Hermes Iliad infra Jebb justice later Leaf's note Mair renders meaning Monro H. G. myth occurs Ovid Paley Pandora passage Pausanias perhaps Perses Pindar Plato Pliny N. H. plowing Plutarch poem poet precepts Proclus proem Prometheus proverbs Pyth race reference rejected Rzach says season seems Semonides sense Sittl Soph Sophocles supra Themis Themistes Theocritus Theognis verb Vergil Vergil Georg verse VIII Waltz World-Ages XVII XVIII XXIII XXIV Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ θεῶν καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ τὰ τε τὸ τοῦ τῶν
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Page 100 - likest God's / when Mercy seasons Justice. Therefore—/ though Justice be thy plea, consider this, / that in the course of Justice none of us / should see salvation: we do pray for mercy / and that same prayer doth teach us all to render / the deeds of mercy. See
Page 105 - (20): The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 147 - I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.
Page 153 - Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatched unfledged comrade.
Page 103 - Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously and boldest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
Page 114 - Cum autem duobus modis, id est aut vi aut fraude, fiat iniuria, fraus quasi vulpeculae, vis leonis videtur: utrumque homine alienissimum, sed fraus odio digna maiore. Totius autem iniustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui, cum maxime fallunt, id agunt ut viri boni esse videantur.
Page 86 - whose head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron,
Page 108 - Minucius convocatis multibus, Saepe ego, inquit, audivi, milites, eum primum esse virum, qui ipse consulat quid in rem sit, secundum eum qui bene monenti oboediat; qui nee ipse consulere nee alteri parere sciat, eum extremi ingenii esse.
Page 184 - Thou almost makest me waver in my faith To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. For
Page 186 - Simul imis saxa renarint Vadis levata, ne redire sit nefas Neu conversa domum pigeat dare lintea, quando Padus Matina laverit cacumina, In mare seu celsus procurrerit Apenninus Novaque monstra iunxerit