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Hesiod, Works And Days, 813-826
ἀνέρι τʼ ἠδὲ γυναικί· καὶ οὔποτε πάγκακον ἦμαρ. Therefore don’t eat or wash from it. Permit
παῦροι δʼ αὖτε ἴσασι τρισεινάδα μηνὸς ἀρίστην No twelve-year- or twelve-month-old to be sat
ἄρξασθαί τε πίθου καὶ ἐπὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι θεῖναι Upon a sacred monument, for it
βουσὶ καὶ ἡμιόνοισι καὶ ἵπποις ὠκυπόδεσσι Will make him womanish, and make sure that
νῆα πολυκλήιδα θοὴν εἰς οἴνοπα πόντον You don’t wash in a basin that has been
εἰρύμεναι· παῦροι δέ τʼ ἀληθέα κικλῄσκουσιν. Just handled by a woman – punishment
τετράδι δʼ οἶγε πίθον· περὶ πάντων ἱερὸν ἦμαρ Should you do this, will for a time be keen.
μέσση· παῦροι δʼ αὖτε μετʼ εἰκάδα μηνὸς ἀρίστην If you should find a sacrifice unspent
ἠοῦς γιγνομένης· ἐπὶ δείελα δʼ ἐστὶ χερείων. Of flame, do not belittle things that we
αἵδε μὲν ἡμέραι εἰσιν ἐπιχθονίοις μέγʼ ὄνειαρ Know nothing of – a god is angered thus.
αἱ δʼ ἄλλαι μετάδουποι, ἀκήριοι, οὔ τι φέρουσαι. In springs or rivers flowing to the sea
ἄλλος δʼ ἀλλοίην αἰνεῖ, παῦροι δὲ ἴσασιν. Don’t urinate – this point is serious.
ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ. It’s better not to vent your bowels there:
τάων εὐδαίμων τε καὶ ὄλβιος, ὃς τάδε πάντα Thus you’ll stay fee of mortals’ wicked chat

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

6 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 241-292, 294-299, 3, 300-399, 4, 400-499, 5, 500-599, 6, 600-699, 7, 700-776, 778, 780-784, 788-789, 793-806, 814-828, 240 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 240. However, when to both the foreigner
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 918 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 918. Came heat, the whole earth seething in revolt
3. Homer, Iliad, 1.9 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1.9. /from the time when first they parted in strife Atreus' son, king of men, and brilliant Achilles.Who then of the gods was it that brought these two together to contend? The son of Leto and Zeus; for he in anger against the king roused throughout the host an evil pestilence, and the people began to perish
4. Homer, Odyssey, 6.100, 11.318 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
5. Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 97 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Demosthenes, On The Crown, 267 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
agricultural calendar	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
agriculture, as a metapoetic metaphor in hesiod	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
astrology	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
authority, poetic	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
comedy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
contingency	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
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
demosthenes	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
drama	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
earth (element)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 149
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
fire (element)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 149
food	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
hannah, robert	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
heaven/heaven	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 149
hecuba	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
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) 89
icon	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
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) 89
kravaritou, s.	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 537
leocrates	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
night	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 149
perses	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
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) 89
rhetoric	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89
solon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
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) 89
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
zeus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 89