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Bibliographic information
| Title | Notes on the Works and Days of Hesiod |
| Author | Heber Michel Hays |
| Publisher | University of Chicago, 1918 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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