The Catalogues of Women and Other Fragments · 1914
Doubtful Fragments
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Loeb, 1914)
[1] Galen, de plac. Hipp. et Plat. i. 266: ‘And then it was Zeus took away sense from the heart of Athamas.’
[2] Scholiast on Homer, Od. vii. 104: ‘They grind the yellow grain at the mill.’
[3] Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. ii. 1: ‘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] Julian, Misopogon, p. 369: ‘But starvation on a handful is a cruel thing.’
[5] Servius on Vergil, Aen. iv. 484: Hesiod says that these Hesperides........daughters of Night, guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean: ‘Aegle and Erythea and ox-eyed Hesperethusa.’
[6] Plato, Republic, iii. 390 E: ‘Gifts move the gods, gifts move worshipful princes.’
[7] Clement of Alexandria, Strom. v. p. 256: ‘On the seventh day again the bright light of the sun....’
[8] Apollonius, Lex. Hom.: ‘He brought pure water and mixed it with Ocean’s streams.’
[9] Stephanus of Byzantium: ‘Aspledon and Clymenus and god-like Amphidocus.’ (sons of Orchomenus).
[10] Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. iii. 64: ‘Telemon never sated with battle first brought light to our comrades by slaying blameless Melanippe, destroyer of men, own sister of the golden-girdled queen.’
Cite this text
MLA
Hesiod. The Catalogues of Women and Other Fragments, Doubtful Fragments. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/hesiod-fragments-evelyn-white/10/.
Chicago
Hesiod. The Catalogues of Women and Other Fragments, Doubtful Fragments. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/hesiod-fragments-evelyn-white/10/.