Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica/The Great Works

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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica
Hesiod, translated by H.G. Evelyn-White

The Great Works

The Idaean Dactyls

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New Haven: Harvard University Press, page 75

1985690Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica — The Great WorksH.G. Evelyn-WhiteHesiod

THE GREAT WORKS

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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."

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Some believe that the Silver Race (is to be attributed to) the earth, declaring that in the Great Works Hesiod makes silver to be of the family of Earth.