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Hesiod, Works And Days, 420-469


τῆμος ἀδηκτοτάτη πέλεται τμηθεῖσα σιδήρῳYour own downfall. Thus now you come to me:


ὕλη, φύλλα δʼ ἔραζε χέει, πτόρθοιό τε λήγει·I’ll give you nothing. Practise industry


τῆμος ἄρʼ ὑλοτομεῖν μεμνημένος ὥρια ἔργα.Foolish Perses, which the gods have given men


ὄλμον μὲν τριπόδην τάμνειν, ὕπερον δὲ τρίπηχυνLest, with their wives and children, dolefully


ἄξονα δʼ ἑπταπόδην· μάλα γάρ νύ τοι ἄρμενον οὕτω·They seek food from their neighbours, who will then


εἰ δέ κεν ὀκταπόδην, ἀπὸ καὶ σφῦράν κε τάμοιο.Ignore them. Twice or thrice you may succeed


τρισπίθαμον δʼ ἄψιν τάμνειν δεκαδώρῳ ἀμάξῃ.But if you still harass them, you’ll achieve


πόλλʼ ἐπικαμπύλα κᾶλα· φέρειν δὲ γύην, ὅτʼ ἂν εὕρῃςNothing and waste your words about your need.


ἐς οἶκον, κατʼ ὄρος διζήμενος ἢ κατʼ ἄρουρανI urge you, figure how you may relieve


πρίνινον· ὃς γὰρ βουσὶν ἀροῦν ὀχυρώτατός ἐστινYour need and cease your hunger. The first thing


εὖτʼ ἂν Ἀθηναίης δμῷος ἐν ἐλύματι πήξαςThat you must do is get a house, then find


γόμφοισιν πελάσας προσαρήρεται ἱστοβοῆι.A slave to help you with your furrowing


δοιὰ δὲ θέσθαι ἄροτρα, πονησάμενος κατὰ οἶκονFemale, unwed, an ox to plough behind


αὐτόγυον καὶ πηκτόν, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιον οὕτω·Then in the house prepare the things you’ll need;


εἴ χʼ ἕτερον ἄξαις, ἕτερόν κʼ ἐπὶ βουσὶ βάλοιο.Don’t borrow lest you be refused and lack


δάφνης δʼ ἢ πτελέης ἀκιώτατοι ἱστοβοῆεςAll means and, as the hours duly speed


δρυὸς ἔλυμα, γύης πρίνου· βόε δʼ ἐνναετήρωAlong, your labour’s lost. Do not push back


ἄρσενε κεκτῆσθαι, τῶν γὰρ σθένος οὐκ ἀλαπαδνόνYour toil for just one day: don’t drag your feet


ἥβης μέτρον ἔχοντε· τὼ ἐργάζεσθαι ἀρίστω.And fight with ruin evermore. No, when


οὐκ ἂν τώ γʼ ἐρίσαντε ἐν αὔλακι κὰμ μὲν ἄροτρονYou feel no more the fierce sun’s sweaty heat


ἄξειαν, τὸ δὲ ἔργον ἐτώσιον αὖθι λίποιεν.And mighty Zeus sends autumn rain, why, then


τοῖς δʼ ἅμα τεσσαρακονταετὴς αἰζηὸς ἕποιτοWe move more quickly – that’s the time when we


ἄρτον δειπνήσας τετράτρυφον, ὀκτάβλωμονSee Sirius travelling less above us all


ὃς ἔργου μελετῶν ἰθεῖάν κʼ αὔλακʼ ἐλαύνοιPoor wretches, using night more, and that tree


μηκέτι παπταίνων μεθʼ ὁμήλικας, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ ἔργῳYou cut has shed its foliage in the fall


θυμὸν ἔχων· τοῦ δʼ οὔτι νεώτερος ἄλλος ἀμείνωνNo longer sprouting, and is less replete


σπέρματα δάσσασθαι καὶ ἐπισπορίην ἀλέασθαι.With worm-holes. Now’s the time to fell your trees.


κουρότερος γὰρ ἀνὴρ μεθʼ ὁμήλικας ἐπτοίηται.Cut with a drilling-mortar of three feet


φράζεσθαι δʼ, εὖτʼ ἂν γεράνου φωνὴν ἐπακούσῃςAnd pestle of three cubits: you must seize


ὑψόθεν ἐκ νεφέων ἐνιαύσια κεκληγυίης·A seven-foot axle – that’s a perfect fit


ἥτʼ ἀρότοιό τε σῆμα φέρει καὶ χείματος ὥρην(You’ll make a hammerhead with one of eight).


δεικνύει ὀμβρηροῦ· κραδίην δʼ ἔδακʼ ἀνδρὸς ἀβούτεω·To have a ten-palm wagon, make for it


δὴ τότε χορτάζειν ἕλικας βόας ἔνδον ἐόντας·Four three-foot wagon-wheels. Wood that’s not straight


ῥηίδιον γὰρ ἔπος εἰπεῖν· βόε δὸς καὶ ἄμαξαν·Is useful – gather lots for use within:


ῥηίδιον δʼ ἀπανήνασθαι· πάρα ἔργα βόεσσιν.At home or in the mountains search for it.


φησὶ δʼ ἀνὴρ φρένας ἀφνειὸς πήξασθαι ἄμαξανHolm-oak is strongest for the plough: the pin


νήπιος, οὐδὲ τὸ οἶδʼ· ἑκατὸν δέ τε δούρατʼ ἀμάξηςIs fixed on it, on which the pole will sit


τῶν πρόσθεν μελέτην ἐχέμεν οἰκήια θέσθαι.By craftsmen of Athene. But make two


εὖτʼ ἂν δὲ πρώτιστʼ ἄροτος θνητοῖσι φανείῃWithin your house, of one piece and compressed.


δὴ τότʼ ἐφορμηθῆναι ὁμῶς δμῶές τε καὶ αὐτὸςThat’s better - if one breaks the other you


αὔην καὶ διερὴν ἀρόων ἀρότοιο καθʼ ὥρηνMay use. Sound elm or laurel are the best


πρωὶ μάλα σπεύδων, ἵνα τοι πλήθωσιν ἄρουραι.For poles. The stock should be of oak, the beam


ἦρι πολεῖν· θέρεος δὲ νεωμένη οὔ σʼ ἀπατήσει.Of holm-oak. Two bull oxen you should buy


νειὸν δὲ σπείρειν ἔτι κουφίζουσαν ἄρουραν·Both nine years old - a prime age, you may deem


νειὸς ἀλεξιάρη παίδων εὐκηλήτειρα.For strength. They toil the hardest nor will vie


εὔχεσθαι δὲ Διὶ χθονίῳ Δημήτερί θʼ ἁγνῇIn conflict in the furrows nor will break


ἐκτελέα βρίθειν Δημήτερος ἱερὸν ἀκτήνThe plough or leave the work undone. And now


ἀρχόμενος τὰ πρῶτʼ ἀρότου, ὅτʼ ἂν ἄκρον ἐχέτληςA forty-year-old stalwart you should take


χειρὶ λαβὼν ὅρπηκα βοῶν ἐπὶ νῶτον ἵκηαιWho will, before he ventures out to plough


ἔνδρυον ἑλκόντων μεσάβων. ὁ δὲ τυτθὸς ὄπισθεConsume a quartered, eight-slice loaf, one who


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

5 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 221-237, 240-419, 421-776, 778, 780-784, 788-789, 793-806, 813-828, 220 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

220. You go where I decide. Perhaps you are
2. Plato, Statesman, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

370a. of the food for himself alone in a quarter of the time and employ the other three-quarters, the one in the provision of a house, the other of a garment, the other of shoes, and not have the bother of associating with other people, but, himself for himself, mind his own affairs? And Adeimantus said, But, perhaps, Socrates, the former way is easier. It would not, by Zeus, be at all strange, said I; for now that you have mentioned it, it occurs to me myself that, to begin with, our several natures are not
4. Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 97 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

5. Demosthenes, On The Crown, 267 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)



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arcturus Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 85
aristophanes Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
astrology Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
athens Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
aulis Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 86
autochthony, athenian Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
blend of cognition and emotion de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
callipolis Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
city of the just, the Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
comedy, old Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
comedy Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
cultic ritual practice, calendars and festivals Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
cultic ritual practice, sacrificial and festal calendars Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
cyme Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 86
demosthenes Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
dialectic/dialogue Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
dicaeopolis Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
discrepancy, between words and deeds Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84
drama Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
emotions, admiration/awe de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, anger/rage de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, disappointment de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, joy de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, love/passion de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, sorrow de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
encomium Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
euripides Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
festivals Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
food Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 85, 86
gifts Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84
hannah, robert Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
hecuba Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
helicon Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 86
hesiod, works and days Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
hesiod Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 85, 86, 145; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
hyades, the Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 85
hymns Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
inscriptions, sacrificial calendars Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
justice Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 85, 86, 145
kravaritou, s. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
leaving the city, as a metaliterary metaphor Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84
leocrates Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
orion Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 85
pain/suffering de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
perses Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 85, 86
plato Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
poetic quotations Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
poetry, and aristocratic power Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 85, 86
sirius Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 85
socrates Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
solon Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
tapestry Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
time, calendars' Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
timeliness Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 85, 86
tragedy Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
trümpy, c. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
utopia Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84, 145
weaving Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145
writing Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 145