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Doubtful Fragments

by Hesiod fl. c. 700 BC

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.’

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