Hesiod: WITH Works and Days AND Shield by Hesiod

Author:Hesiod
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004-07-15T05:00:00+00:00

Zeus can grant his bounty just as easily to many;

more children mean more cares, but more income too.

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If your heart is set on becoming wealthy,

do as I say and put more work on top of work.

Start reaping when the Pleiades rise, daughters of Atlas,

and begin to plow when they set.

For forty days and forty nights they lie hidden,

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but as the year moves on in its cycle

they can be seen again when you first sharpen your iron.

Nature has laid down this law for all whether they live on the plain,

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