22.
"And if I said this, it would seem a poor thing and hard to understand."
23.
Thus spake the Boeotian, even Hesiod,[1] servant of the sweet Muses: "whomsoever the immortals honour, the good report of mortals also followeth him."
DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS
1.
"And then it was Zeus took away sense from the heart of Athamas."
2.
"They grind the yellow grain at the mill."
3.
"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."
4.
"But starvation on a handful is a cruel thing."
5.
Hesiod says that these Hesperides..., daughters of Night, guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean.
"Aegle and Erythea and ox-eyed Hesperethusa."
- ↑ cp. Hes. Theog. 81 ff. But Theognis 169, "Whomso the gods honour, even a man inclined to blame praiseth him," is much nearer.
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