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Works and Days The Theogony and The Shield of Heracles - Hesiod · Ernest Hemingway Works Collection

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  Speaker 1: Section 1 of Works and Days, the Theogony, and the
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  Speaker 1: Shield of Heracles. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: and the Shield of Heracles by Hesiod. Section 1. Works
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  Speaker 1: and Days. Muses of Paeria who give glory through song,
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  Speaker 1: come hither, Tell of Zeus your father and chant his praise.
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  Speaker 1: Through him mortal men are famed or unfamed, sung or
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  Speaker 1: unsung alike, as great Zeus wills. For easily he makes strong,
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  Speaker 1: and easily he brings the strong man low. Easily he
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  Speaker 1: humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he
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  Speaker 1: straightens the crooked and blasts the proud. Zeus, who thunders
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  Speaker 1: aloft and has his dwelling most high, attend thou with
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  Speaker 1: eye and ear and and make judgments straight with righteousness. And, Perses,
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  Speaker 1: I would tell of true things. So, after all, there
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  Speaker 1: was not one kind of strife alone, but all over
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  Speaker 1: the earth there are two. As for the one, a
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  Speaker 1: man would praise her when he came to understand her,
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  Speaker 1: but the other is blameworthy, and they are wholly different
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  Speaker 1: in nature. For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel.
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  Speaker 1: Her no man loves, but perforce through the will of
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  Speaker 1: the deathless gods, men pay harsh strife her honour due.
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  Speaker 1: But the other is the elder daughter of Dark Night,
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  Speaker 1: and the son of Cronos who sits above and dwells
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  Speaker 1: in the ether, set her in the roots of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And she is far kinder to men. She stirs up
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  Speaker 1: even the shiftless to toil. For a man grows eager
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  Speaker 1: to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man,
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  Speaker 1: who hastens to plough and plant and put his house
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  Speaker 1: in good order. and neighbour vies with his neighbour as
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  Speaker 1: he hurries after wealth. This strife is wholesome for men,
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  Speaker 1: and potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman,
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  Speaker 1: and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel. Percys,
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  Speaker 1: lay up these things in your heart, and do not
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  Speaker 1: let that strife who delights in mischief hold your heart
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  Speaker 1: back from work, while you peep and peer and listen
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  Speaker 1: to the wrangles of the courthouse. Little concern has he
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  Speaker 1: with quarrels and courts who has not a year's victuals
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  Speaker 1: laid up betimes, even that which the earth bears, Demeter's grain.
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  Speaker 1: When you have got plenty of that, you can raise
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  Speaker 1: disputes and strive to get another's goods, but you shall
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  Speaker 1: have no second chance to deal so again. Nay, let
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  Speaker 1: us settle our dispute here with true judgment, which is
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  Speaker 1: of Zeus and is perfect. For we had already divided
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  Speaker 1: our inheritance, but you seized the greater share and carried
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  Speaker 1: it off, greatly swelling the glory of our bribe-swallowing lords
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  Speaker 1: who love to judge such a cause as this. Fools!
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  Speaker 1: They know not how much more the half is than
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  Speaker 1: the whole, nor what great advantage there is in Mallow
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  Speaker 1: and Asphodel. For the gods keep hidden from men the
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  Speaker 1: means of life, else you would easily do work enough
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  Speaker 1: in a day to supply you for a full year
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  Speaker 1: even without working. Soon would you put away your rudder
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  Speaker 1: over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and
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  Speaker 1: sturdy mule would run to waste. But Zeus, in the
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  Speaker 1: anger of his heart, hid it, because Prometheus the crafty
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  Speaker 1: deceived him. Therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men.
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  Speaker 1: He hid fire, but that the noble son of Iapetus
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  Speaker 1: stole again for men from Zeus the counsellor, in a
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  Speaker 1: hollow fennel-stock, so that Zeus, who delights in thunder, did
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  Speaker 1: not see it. But afterwards Zeus, who gathers the clouds,
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  Speaker 1: said to him in anger,' Son of Iapetus, surpassing all
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  Speaker 1: in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me
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  Speaker 1: and stolen fire. A great plague to you yourself and
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  Speaker 1: to men that shall be. But I will give men
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  Speaker 1: as the price for fire an evil thing, in which
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  Speaker 1: they may all be glad of heart while they embrace
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  Speaker 1: their own destruction.' So said the father of men and gods,
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  Speaker 1: and laughed aloud. And he bade famous Hephaestus make haste,
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  Speaker 1: and mix earth with water, and to put in it
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  Speaker 1: the voice and strength of humankind, and fashion a sweet,
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  Speaker 1: lovely maiden-shape, like to the immortal goddesses in face, and
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  Speaker 1: Athena to teach her needlework, and the weaving of the
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  Speaker 1: varied web, and golden Aphrodite to shed grace upon her head,
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  Speaker 1: and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs. And
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  Speaker 1: he charged Hermes the guide, the slayer of Argus, to
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  Speaker 1: put in her a shameless mind and a deceitful nature.
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  Speaker 1: So he ordered. And they obeyed the lord Zeus, the
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  Speaker 1: son of Kronos. Forthwith the famous lame god moulded clay
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  Speaker 1: in the likeness of a modest maid, as the son
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  Speaker 1: of Kronos purposed. And the goddess bright-eyed Athena girded and
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  Speaker 1: clothed her, and the divine graces in queenly persuasion put
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  Speaker 1: necklaces of gold upon her, and the rich-haired hours crowned
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  Speaker 1: her head with spring flowers. and Pallas Athena bedecked her
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  Speaker 1: form with all manner of finery. Also the guide, the
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  Speaker 1: slayer of Argus, contrived within her lies and crafty words
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  Speaker 1: and a deceitful nature at the will of loud thundering Zeus,
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  Speaker 1: and the herald of the gods put speech in her.
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  Speaker 1: And he called this woman Pandora, because all they who
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  Speaker 1: dwelt on Olympus gave each a gift, a plague to
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  Speaker 1: men who eat bread. But when he had finished the
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  Speaker 1: sheer hopeless snare, the father sent glorious Argus Slayer, the
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  Speaker 1: swift messenger of the gods, to take it to Epimetheus
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  Speaker 1: as a gift. And Epimetheus did not think on what
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  Speaker 1: Prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a
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  Speaker 1: gift of Olympian Zeus, but to send it back for
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  Speaker 1: fear it might prove to be something harmful to men.
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  Speaker 1: But he took the gift, and afterwards, when the evil
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  Speaker 1: thing was already his, he understood. For ere this the
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  Speaker 1: tribes of men lived on earth remote and free from
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  Speaker 1: the ills and hard toil and heavy sicknesses which bring
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  Speaker 1: the fates upon men, for in misery men grow old quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But the woman took off the great lid of the
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  Speaker 1: jar with her hands and scattered. All these and her
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  Speaker 1: thought caused sorrow and mischief to men. Only hope remained
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  Speaker 1: there in an unbreakable home within under the rim of
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  Speaker 1: the great jar. and did not fly out at the door,
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  Speaker 1: for ere that the lid of the jar stopped her
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  Speaker 1: by the will of ages-holding Zeus who gathers the clouds.
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  Speaker 1: But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men, for earth
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  Speaker 1: is full of evils, and the sea is full. Of
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  Speaker 1: themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night,
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  Speaker 1: bringing mischief to mortals silently, for wise Zeus took away
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  Speaker 1: speech from them. so is there no way to escape
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  Speaker 1: the will of Zeus. Or, if you will, I will
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  Speaker 1: sum you up another tale, well and skillfully, and do
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  Speaker 1: you lay it up in your heart, how the gods
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  Speaker 1: and mortal men sprang from one source. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden
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  Speaker 1: race of mortal men who lived in the time of
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  Speaker 1: Kronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived
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  Speaker 1: like gods, without sorrow of heart, remote and free from
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  Speaker 1: toil and grief, Miserable age rested not on them, but
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  Speaker 1: with legs and arms never failing, they made merry with
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  Speaker 1: feasting beyond the reach of all evils. When they died,
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  Speaker 1: it was as though they were overcome with sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: they had all good things, for the fruitful earth unforced
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  Speaker 1: bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. They dwelt in
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  Speaker 1: ease and peace upon their lands with many good things,
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  Speaker 1: rich in flocks and loved by the blessed gods. But
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  Speaker 1: after the earth had covered this generation, they are called
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  Speaker 1: pure spirits, dwelling on the earth, and are kindly, delivering
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  Speaker 1: from harm, and guardians of mortal men. For they roam
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  Speaker 1: everywhere over the earth, clothed in mist, and keep watch
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  Speaker 1: on judgments and cruel deeds, givers of wealth. For this
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  Speaker 1: royal right also they received. Then they who dwell on
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  Speaker 1: Olympus made a second generation, which was of silver, and
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  Speaker 1: less noble by far. It was like the golden race,
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  Speaker 1: neither in body nor in spirit. A child was brought
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  Speaker 1: up at his good mother's side a hundred years, an
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  Speaker 1: utter simpleton, playing childishly in his own home. But when
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  Speaker 1: they were full grown, and were come to the full
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  Speaker 1: measure of their prime, they lived only a little time,
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  Speaker 1: and that in sorrow because of their foolishness. For they
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  Speaker 1: could not keep from sinning and wronging one another, nor
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  Speaker 1: would they serve the immortals, nor sacrifice on the holy
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  Speaker 1: altars of the blessed ones, as it is right for
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  Speaker 1: men to do wherever they dwell. Then Zeus, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Kronos, was angry and put them away, because they
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  Speaker 1: would not give honor to the blessed gods who live
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  Speaker 1: on Olympus. But when earth had covered this generation also,
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  Speaker 1: they are called blessed spirits of the underworld by men,
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  Speaker 1: and though they are of second order, yet honor attends
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  Speaker 1: them also. Zeus the father made a third generation of
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  Speaker 1: mortal men, a brazen race sprung from ash trees, and
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  Speaker 1: it was in no way equal to the silver age,
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  Speaker 1: but was terrible and strong. They loved the lamentable works
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  Speaker 1: of Ares and deeds of violence. They ate no bread,
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  Speaker 1: but were hard of heart like adamant, fearful men. Great
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  Speaker 1: was their strength and unconquerable the arms which grew from
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  Speaker 1: their shoulders on their strong limbs. Their armor was of bronze,
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  Speaker 1: and their houses of bronze, and of bronze were their implements.
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  Speaker 1: There was no black iron. These were destroyed by their
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  Speaker 1: own hands and passed to the dank house of Chilhades
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  Speaker 1: and left no name. terrible though they were. Black Death
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  Speaker 1: seized them, and they left the bright light of the sun.
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  Speaker 1: But when earth had covered this generation also, Zeus the
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  Speaker 1: son of Kronos made yet another, the fourth, upon the
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  Speaker 1: fruitful earth, which was nobler and more righteous, a godlike
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  Speaker 1: race of hero-men who are called demigods, the race before
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  Speaker 1: our own, throughout the boundless earths. Grim war and dread
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  Speaker 1: battle destroyed a part of them, some in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Cadmus at seven-gated Thebes, when they fought for the
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  Speaker 1: flocks of Oedipus, and some when it had brought them
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  Speaker 1: in ships over the great sea-gulf to Troy, for rich-haired
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  Speaker 1: Helen's sake. Their deaths end enshrouded a part of them.
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  Speaker 1: But to the others Father Zeus, the son of Kronos,
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  Speaker 1: gave a living, and an abode apart from men, and
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  Speaker 1: made them dwell at the ends of earth. And they
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  Speaker 1: live untouched by sorrow in the islands of the blessed
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  Speaker 1: along the shore of deep swirling ocean, happy heroes, for
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  Speaker 1: whom the grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet fruit, flourishing thrice a year,
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  Speaker 1: far from the deathless gods, and Kronos rules over them,
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  Speaker 1: for the father of men and gods released him from
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  Speaker 1: his bonds. And these last equally have honor and glory.
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  Speaker 1: And again, far-seeing Zeus made yet another generation, the fifth
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  Speaker 1: of men. who are upon the bounteous earth. Thereafter would
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  Speaker 1: that I were not among the men of the fifth generation,
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  Speaker 1: but either had died before or been born afterwards. For
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  Speaker 1: now truly is a race of iron, and men never
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  Speaker 1: rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing
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  Speaker 1: by night. And the gods shall lay sore trouble upon them.
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  Speaker 1: But notwithstanding, even these shall have some good mingled with
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  Speaker 1: their evils, And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal
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  Speaker 1: men also, when they come to have gray hair on
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  Speaker 1: the temples at their birth. The father will not agree
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  Speaker 1: with his children, nor the children with their father, nor
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  Speaker 1: guest with his host, nor comrade with comrade, nor will
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  Speaker 1: brother be dear to brother as aforetime. Men will dishonor
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  Speaker 1: their parents as they grow quickly old, and will carpet them,
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  Speaker 1: chiding them with bitter words. Hard-hearted they, not knowing the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the gods. They will not repay their aged
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  Speaker 1: parents the cost of their nurture, for might shall be
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  Speaker 1: their right, and one man will sack another city. There
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  Speaker 1: will be no favour for the man who keeps his oath,
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  Speaker 1: or for the just, or for the good, but rather
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  Speaker 1: men will praise the evildoer and his violent dealing. Strength
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  Speaker 1: will be right, and reverence will cease to be, and
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  Speaker 1: the wicked will hurt the worthy man speaking false words
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  Speaker 1: against him, and will swear an oath upon them. ENVY foul-mouthed,
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  Speaker 1: delighting in evil, with scowling face, will go along with
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  Speaker 1: wretched men one and all. And then Eidos and Nemesis,
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  Speaker 1: with their sweet forms wrapped in white robes, will go
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  Speaker 1: from the wide-pathed earth and forsake mankind to join the
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  Speaker 1: company of the deathless gods, and bitter sorrows will be
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  Speaker 1: left for mortal men, and there will be no help
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  Speaker 1: against evil. And now I will tell a fable for
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  Speaker 1: princes who themselves understand. Thus said the hawk to the
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  Speaker 1: nightingale with speckled neck, while he carried her high up
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  Speaker 1: among the clouds, gripped fast in his talons. And she,
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  Speaker 1: pierced by his crooked talons, cried pitifully. To her he
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  Speaker 1: spoke disdainfully,' Miserable thing, why do you cry out? One
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  Speaker 1: far stronger than you now holds you fast, and you
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  Speaker 1: must go wherever I take you, songstress as you are.
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  Speaker 1: And if I please, I will make my meal of you,
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  Speaker 1: or let you go.' He is a fool who tries
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  Speaker 1: to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery,
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  Speaker 1: and suffers pain besides his shame. So said the swiftly
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  Speaker 1: flying hawk, the long-winged bird. But you, Percys, listen to right,
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  Speaker 1: and do not foster violence, for violence is bad for
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  Speaker 1: a poor man. Even the prosperous cannot easily bear its burden,
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  Speaker 1: but is weighed down under it when he has fallen
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  Speaker 1: into delusion. The better path is to go by on
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  Speaker 1: the other side towards justice. For justice beats outrage when
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  Speaker 1: she comes at length to the end of the race.
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  Speaker 1: But only when he has suffered does the fool learn this.
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  Speaker 1: For oath keeps pace with wrong judgments. There is a
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  Speaker 1: noise when justice is being dragged in the way where
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  Speaker 1: those who devour bribes and give sentence with crooked judgments
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  Speaker 1: take her. And she, wrapped in mist, follows to the
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  Speaker 1: city and haunts of the people. weeping and bringing mischief
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  Speaker 1: to men, even to such as have driven her forth
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  Speaker 1: in that they did not deal straightly with her. But
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  Speaker 1: they who give straight judgments to strangers and to the
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  Speaker 1: men of the land, and go not aside from what
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  Speaker 1: is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it. Peace,
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  Speaker 1: the nurse of children, is abroad in their land, and
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  Speaker 1: all seeing Zeus never decrees cruel war against them. Neither
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  Speaker 1: famine nor disaster ever haunt men who do true justice,
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  Speaker 1: but lightheartedly they tend the fields which are all their care.
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  Speaker 1: The earth bears them victual in plenty, and on the
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  Speaker 1: mountains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees
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  Speaker 1: in the midst. Their woolly sheep are laden with fleeces,
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  Speaker 1: their women bear children like their parents. They flourish continually
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  Speaker 1: with good things, and do not travel on ships, for
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  Speaker 1: the grain-giving earth bears bears them fruit. But for those
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  Speaker 1: who practice violence and cruel deeds, far-seeing Zeus, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Kronos, ordains a punishment. Often even a whole city
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  Speaker 1: suffers for a bad man who sins and devises presumptuous deeds,
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  Speaker 1: and the son of Kronos lays great trouble upon the people,
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  Speaker 1: famine and plague together, so that the men perish away,
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  Speaker 1: and their women do not bear children, and their houses
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  Speaker 1: become few, through the contriving of Olympian Zeus. And again
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  Speaker 1: at another time the son of Kronos either destroys their
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  Speaker 1: wide army, or their walls, or else makes an end
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  Speaker 1: of their ships on the sea. You princes mark well
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  Speaker 1: this punishment, you also, for the deathless gods are near
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  Speaker 1: among men, and mark all those who oppress their fellows
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  Speaker 1: with crooked judgments, and heed not the anger of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: For upon the bounteous earth Zeus has thrice ten thousand spirits,
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  Speaker 1: watchers of mortal men, and these keep watch on judgments
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  Speaker 1: and deeds of wrong as they roam clothed in mist
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  Speaker 1: all over the earth. And there is virgin Justice, the
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Zeus, who is honored and reverenced among the
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  Speaker 1: gods who dwell on Olympus. And whenever anyone hurts her
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  Speaker 1: with lying slander, she sits beside her father, Zeus the
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  Speaker 1: son of Cronus, and tells him of men's wicked heart.
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  Speaker 1: until the people pay for the mad folly of their princes, who,
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  Speaker 1: evilly minded, pervert judgment, and give sentence crookedly. Keep watch
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  Speaker 1: against this, you princes, and make straight your judgments, you
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  Speaker 1: who devour bribes. Put crooked judgments altogether from your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: He does mischief to himself, who does mischief to another.
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  Speaker 1: And evil planned harms the plotter most. The eye of
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  Speaker 1: Zeus says, seeing all and understanding all, beholds these things too,
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  Speaker 1: if so he will, and fails not to mark what
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  Speaker 1: sort of justice is this that the city keeps within it. Now, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: may neither I myself be righteous among men nor my son,
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  Speaker 1: for then it is a bad thing to be righteous,
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  Speaker 1: if indeed the unrighteous shall have the greater right. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that all-wise Zeus will not yet bring that
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  Speaker 1: to pass. But you, Perses, Lay up these things within
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  Speaker 1: your heart, and listen now to right, ceasing altogether to
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  Speaker 1: think of violence. For the son of Kronos has ordained
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  Speaker 1: this law for men, that fishes and beasts and winged
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  Speaker 1: fowls should devour one another, for right is not in them.
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  Speaker 1: But to mankind he gave right, which proves far the best.
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  Speaker 1: For whoever knows the right and is ready to speak it,
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  Speaker 1: far-seeing Zeus gives him prosperity. But whoever deliberately lies in
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  Speaker 1: his witness and forswears himself, and so hurts justice and
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  Speaker 1: sins beyond repair, that man's generation is left obscure thereafter.
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  Speaker 1: But the generation of the man who swears truly is
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  Speaker 1: better thenceforward. To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense.
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  Speaker 1: Badness can be got easily and in shoals. The road
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  Speaker 1: to her is smooth, and she lives very near us.
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  Speaker 1: But between us and goodness, the gods have placed the
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  Speaker 1: sweat of our brows. Long and steep is the path
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  Speaker 1: that leads to her, and it is rough at the first.
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  Speaker 1: But when a man has reached the top, then is
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  Speaker 1: she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.
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  Speaker 1: That man is altogether best who considers all things himself,
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  Speaker 1: and marks what will be better afterwards and at the end.
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  Speaker 1: And he again is good who listens to a good advisor.
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  Speaker 1: But whoever neither thinks for himself, nor keeps in mind
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  Speaker 1: what another tells him, he is an unprofitable man. But
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: do you at any rate, always remembering my charge, work,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: high-born Perses, that hunger may hate you, and venerable Demeter,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: richly crowned, may love you and fill your barn with food,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: for hunger is altogether a meat comrade for the sluggard.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Both gods and men are angry with a man who
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: lives idle. for in nature he is like the stingless
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: drones who waste the labor of the bees, eating without working.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: But let it be your care to order your work properly,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that in the right season your barns may be full
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: of victual. Through work men grow rich in flocks and substance,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and working they are much better loved by the immortals.
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  Speaker 1: Work is no disgrace, it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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  Speaker 1: But if you work, the idol will soon envy you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: as you grow rich, for fame and renown attend on wealth.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And whatever be your lot, work is best for you,
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  Speaker 1: if you turn your misguided mind away from other men's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: property to your work, and attend to your livelihood as
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I bid you. An evil shame is the needy man's companion,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: shame which both greatly harms and prospers men. Shame is
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: with poverty, but confidence with wealth. Wealth should not be seized.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: God-given wealth is much better. For if a man takes
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: great wealth violently and perforce, or if he steals it
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: through his tongue, as often happens when gain deceives men's
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: sense and dishonour tramples down honour, the gods soon blot
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: him out and make that man's house low, and wealth
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: attends him only for a little time. Alike with him
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: who does wrong to a suppliant or a guest, or
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: who goes up to his brother's bed and commits unnatural
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: sin in lying with his wife, or who infatuately offends
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: against fatherless children, or who abuses his old father at
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the cheerless threshold of old age and attacks him with
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: harsh words, truly Zeus himself is angry, and at the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: last lays on him a heavy requital for his evil doing.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: But do you turn your foolish heart altogether away from
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: these things? And as far as you are able, sacrifice
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to the deathless gods purely and cleanly, and burn rich
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: meats also, and at other times propitiate them with libations
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and incense, both when you go to bed and when
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the holy light has come back, that they may be
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: gracious to you in heart and spirit, and so you
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: may buy another's holding, and not another yours. Call your
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: especially call him who lives near you. For if any
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: mischief happens in the place, neighbors come ungirt, but kinsmen
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: stay to gird themselves. A bad neighbor is as great
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a plague as a good one is a great blessing.
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  Speaker 1: He who enjoys a good neighbor has a precious possession.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Not even an ox would die but for a bad neighbor.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Take fair measure from your neighbor, and pay him back
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: fairly with the same measure, or better if you can,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: so that if you are in need afterwards, you may
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: find him sure. Do not get base gain. Base gain
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: is as bad as ruin. Be friends with the friendly,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and visit him who visits you. Give to one who gives,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: but do not give to one who does not give.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: A man gives to the free-handed, but no one gives
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to the close-fisted. Give is a good girl, but take
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is bad, and she brings death. For the man who
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: gives willingly, even though he gives a great thing, rejoices
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: in his gift and is glad in heart. But whoever
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: gives way to shamelessness and takes something himself, even though
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it is a small thing, it freezes his heart. He
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: who adds to what he has will keep off bright-eyed hunger.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: For if you add only a little to a little
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and do this often, soon that little will become great.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: What a man has by him at home does not
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: trouble him. It is better to have your stuff at
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: home for whatever is abroad may mean loss. It is
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a good thing to draw on what you have, but
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it grieves your heart to need something and not to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: have it. And I bid you mark this. Take your
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: fill when the cask is first opened and when it
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: is nearly spent, but midways be sparing. It is poor
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: saving when you come to the lease. Let the wage
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: promised to a friend be fixed, even with your brother's smile.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and get a witness, for trust and mistrust alike ruin men.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Do not let a flaunting woman coax and cousin and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: deceive you. She is after your barn. The man who
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: trusts womankind trusts deceivers. There should be an only son
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to feed his father's house, for so wealth will increase
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in the home. But if you leave a second son,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you should die old. Yet Zeus can easily give great
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: wealth to a greater number. More hands mean more work
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and more increase. If your heart within you desires wealth,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: do these things and work with work upon work. When
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the Pleiades daughters of Atlas are rising, begin your harvest,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and your plowing when they are going to set. Forty
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: nights and days they are hidden and appear again as
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the year moves round, when you first sharpen your sickle.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: This is the law of the plains, and of those
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: who live near the sea, and who inhabit rich country,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the glens and hollows far from the tossing sea. Strip
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to sow, and strip to plough, and strip to reap,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: if you wish to get in all Demeter's fruits in
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: due season, and that each kind may grow in its season. Else, afterwards,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you may chance to be in want, and go begging
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to other men's houses, but without avail, as you have
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: already come to me. But I will give you no more,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: nor give you further measure, foolish Perses. Work the work
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: which the gods ordain for men, lest in bitter anguish
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of spirit you with your wife and children seek your
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: livelihood amongst your neighbors, and they do not heed you.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Two or three times, maybe, you will succeed. But if
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you trouble them further, it will not avail you, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: all your talk will be in vain, and your word
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: play unprofitable. Nay, I bid you find a way to
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: pay your debts, and avoid hunger. First of all, get
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a house, and a woman, and an ox for the plow.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: A slave woman, and not a wife, to follow the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: oxen as well. And make everything ready at home, so
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that you may not have to ask of another, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: he refuse you, and so because you are in lack,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the season pass by, and your work come to nothing.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Do not put your work off till tomorrow and the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: day after, for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: nor one who puts off his work. Industry makes work
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: go well. but a man who puts off work is
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: always at hand grips with ruin. When the piercing power
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and sultry heat of the sun abate, and almighty Zeus
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: sends the autumn rains, and men's flesh comes to feel
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: far easier, for then the star Sirius passes over the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: heads of men, who are born to misery, only a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: little while by day, and takes greater share of night, then,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: when it showers its leaves to the ground and stops sprouting,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the wood you cut with your axe is least liable
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to worms. Then remember to hew your timber. It is
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the season for that work. Cut a mortar three feet
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: wide and a pestle three cubits long and an axle
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of seven feet, for it will do very well so.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: But if you make it eight feet long, you can
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: cut a beetle from it as well. Cut a fellow
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: three spans across for a wagon of ten palms width.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Hew also many bent timbers and bring home a plow
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: tree when you have found it, and look out on
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the mountain or in the field for one of home oak.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: for this is the strongest for oxen to plow with
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: when one of Athena's handmen has fixed in the sharebeam
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and fastened it to the pole with dowels. Get two
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: plows ready and work on them at home, one all
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of a piece and the other jointed. It is far
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: better to do this, for if you should break one
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: of them, you can put the oxen to the other.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Poles of laurel or elm are most free from worms,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and a sharebeam of oak and a plow tree of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: home oak Get two oxen, bulls of nine years, for
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: their strength is unspent, and they are in the prime
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of their age, they are best for work. They will
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: not fight in the furrow, and break the plow, and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: then leave the work undone. Let a brisk fellow of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: forty years follow them, with a loaf of four quarters,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and eight slices for his dinner. One who will attend
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to his work, and drive a straight furrow, and is
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: past the age for gaping after his fellows, but will
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: keep his mind on his work. No younger man will
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: be better than he at scattering the seed and avoiding
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: double sowing, for a man less staid gets disturbed hankering
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: after his fellows. Mark when you hear the voice of
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the crane, who cries year by year from the clouds above,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: for she gives the signal for plowing and shows the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: season of rainy winter, but she vexes the heart of
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the man who has no oxen. Then is the time
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to feed up your horned oxen in the byre, for
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: it is easy to say, Give me a yoke of
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: oxen and a wagon, and it is easy to refuse,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I have work for my oxen. The man who is
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: rich and fancy thinks his wagon as good as built already.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: The fool! He does not know that there are a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: hundred timbers to a wagon. Take care to lay these
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: up beforehand at home. So soon as the time for
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: plowing is proclaimed to men, then make haste, you and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: your slaves alike, in wet and in dry, to plow
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: in the season for plowing, and bestir yourself early in
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the morning so that your fields may be full. Plow
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: in the spring, but fallow broken up in the summer
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: will not belie your hopes. Sow fallow land when the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: soil is still getting light. Fallow land is a defender
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: from harm and a soother of children. Pray to Zeus
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of the earth and to pure Demeter to make Demeter's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: holy grain sound and heavy when first you begin plowing,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: when you hold in your hand the end of the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: plow tail and bring down your stick on the backs
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: of the oxen as they draw on the pole bar
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: by the yoke straps. Let a slave follow a little
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: behind with a mattock and make trouble for the birds
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: by hiding the seed. for good management is the best
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: for mortal men, as bad management is the worst. In
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: this way your cornears will bow to the ground with fullness,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: if the Olympian himself gives a good result at the last,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and you will sweep the cobwebs from your bins, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you will be glad, I think, as you take of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: your garnered substance. And so you will have plenty till
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you come to grey springtime, and will not look wistfully
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to others, but another shall be in need of your help,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: But if you plough the good ground at the solstice,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you will reap sitting, grasping a thin crop in your hand,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: binding the sheaves awry, dust covered, not glad at all.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: So you will bring all home in a basket, and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: not many will admire you. Yet the will of Zeus
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: who holds the Aegis is different at different times, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it is hard for mortal men to tell it. For
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: if you should plough late, you may find this remedy.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: When the cuckoo first calls in the leaves of the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: oak and makes men glad all over the boundless earth,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: if Zeus should send rain on the third day and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: not cease until it rises neither above an ox's hoof
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: nor falls short of it, then the late plower will
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: vie with the early. Keep all this well in mind,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and fail not to mark grey spring as it comes
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in the season of rain. Pass by the smithy and
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: its crowded lounge in wintertime when the cold keeps men
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: from field work. for then an industrious man can greatly
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: prosper his house, lest bitter winter catch you helpless and poor,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and you chafe a swollen foot with a shrunk hand.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: The idle man who waits on empty hope, lacking a livelihood,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: lays to heart mischief-making. It is not a wholesome hope
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: that accompanies a needy man who lolls at ease while
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: he has no sure livelihood. While it is yet midsummer,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: command your slaves, It will not always be summer, build barns.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Avoid the month Leneon, wretched days, all of them fit
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to skin and ox, and the frosts which are cruel
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: when Boreas blows over the earth. He blows across horse-breeding
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Thrace upon the wide sea, and stirs it up, while
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: earth and the forest howl. On many a high-leafed oak
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and thick pine he falls, and brings them to the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: bounteous earth in mountain glens. Then all the immense wood roars,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and the beasts shudder and put their tails between their legs,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: even those whose hide is covered with fur. For with
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: his bitter blast he blows even through them, although they
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: are shaggy-breasted. He goes even through an ox's hide, it
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: does not stop him. Also he blows through the goat's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: fine hair, but through the fleeces of sheep, because their
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: wool is abundant, the keen wind Boreas pierces not at all.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: but it makes the old man curved as a wheel.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: And it does not blow through the tender maiden who
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: stays indoors with her dear mother, unlearned as yet in
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the works of golden Aphrodite, and who washes her soft
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: body and anoints herself with oil and lies down in
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: an inner room within the house on a winter's day
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: when the boneless one gnaws his foot in his fireless
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: house and wretched home, for the sun shows him no
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: pastures to make for, but goes to and fro over
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the land and city of dusky men, and shines more
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: sluggishly upon the whole race of the Hellenes. Then the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: horned and unhorned denizens of the wood, with teeth chattering pitifully,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: flee through the copses and glades, and all, as they
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: seek shelter, have this one care, to gain thick coverts
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: or some hollow rock. Then, like the three-legged one, whose
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: back is broken and whose head looks down upon the ground,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: like him, I say, they wander to escape the white snow.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Then put on, as I bid you, a soft coat
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and a tunic to the feet to shield your body,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and you should weave thick woof on thin warp. In this,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: clothe yourself so that your hair may keep still and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: not bristle and stand upon end all over your body.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Lace on your feet close-fitting boots of the hide of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a slaughtered ox. thickly lined with felt inside. And when
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the season of frost comes on, stitch together skins of
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: firstling kids with ox sinew to put over your back
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and to keep off the rain. On your head above
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: wear a shaped cap of felt to keep your ears
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: from getting wet, for the dawn is chill when Boreas
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: has once made his onslaught, and at dawn a fruitful
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: mist is spread over the earth from starry heaven upon
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the fields of blessed men. It is drawn from the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: ever-flowing rivers and and is raised high above the earth
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: by windstorm, and sometimes it turns to rain towards evening,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and sometimes to wind when Thracian Boreas huddles the thick clouds.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Finish your work, and return home ahead of him, and
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: do not let the dark cloud from heaven wrap round
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you and make your body clammy and soak your clothes.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Avoid it, for this is the hardest month, wintry, hard
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: for sheep and hard for men. In this season let
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: your oxen have half their usual food, but let your
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: man have more, for the helpful nights are long. Observe
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: all this until the year is ended, and you have
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: nights and days of equal length, and earth, the mother
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of all, bears again her various fruit. When Zeus has
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: finished sixty wintry days after the solstice, then the star
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Arcturus leaves the holy stream of ocean, and first rises
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: brilliant at dusk. After him the shrilly, wailing daughter of Pandion,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the swallow, appears to men when spring is just beginning.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Before she comes, prune the vines, for it is best so.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: But when the house-carrier climbs up the plants from the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: earth to escape the Pleiades, then it is no longer
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the season for digging vineyards, but to wet your sickles
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and rouse up your slaves. Avoid shady seats and sleeping
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: until dawn in the harvest season, when the sun scorches
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the body. Then be busy and bring home your fruits,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: getting up early to make your livelihood sure. For dawn
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: takes away a third part of your work. Dawn advances
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a man on his journey and advances him in his work.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Dawn which appears and sets many men on their road
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and puts yokes on many oxen. But when the artichoke
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: flowers and the chirping grasshopper sits in a tree and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: pours down his shrill song continually from under his wings
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: in the season of wearisome heat, Then goats are plumpest,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and wine sweetest. Women are most wanton, but men are feeblest,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: because Sirius parches head and knees, and the skin is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: dry through heat. But at that time let me have
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: a shady rock and wine of Biblis, a clot of
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: curds and milk of drained goats, with the flesh of
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a heifer fed in the woods, that is never calved,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and of firstling kids.' Then also let me drink bright wine,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: sitting in the shade, when my heart is satisfied with food,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and so, turning my head to face the fresh zephyr,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: from the ever-flowing spring which pours down unfouled, thrice pour
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: an offering of water, but make a fourth libation of wine.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Set your slaves to winnow Demeter's holy grain, when strong
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Orion first appears, on a smooth threshing-floor in an airy place.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Then measure it and store it in jars. And so
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: soon as you have safely stored all your stuff indoors,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I bid you put your bondman out of doors and
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: seek out a servant girl with no children. For a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: servant with a child to nurse is troublesome. And look
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: after the dog with jagged teeth. Do not grudge him
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: his food, or sometime the day sleeper may take your stuff.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Bring in fodder and litter so as to have enough
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  Speaker 1: for your oxen and mules. After that, let your men
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: rest their poor knees and unyoke your pair of oxen.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: But when Orion and Sirius are come into midheaven, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: rosy-fingered dawn sees Arcturus, then cut off all the grape-clusters, Perses,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: and bring them home. Show them to the sun ten
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: days and ten nights, then cover them over for five,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and on the sixth day draw off into vessels the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: gifts of joyful Dionysus. But when the Pleiades and Hyades
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and strong Orion begin to set, then remember to plough
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in season, and so the completed year will fitly pass
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: beneath the earth. But if desire for uncomfortable seafaring sees
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you when the Pleiades plunge into the misty sea to
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: escape Orion's rude strength, then truly gales of all kinds rage.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Then keep ships no longer on the sparkling sea, but
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: be sure to till the land as I bid you.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: haul up your ship upon the land and pack it
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: closely with stones all round to keep off the power
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: of the winds which blow damply, and draw out the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: bilge-plug so that the rain of heaven may not rot it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Put away all the tackle and fittings in your house,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: and stow the wings of the sea-going ship neatly, and
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: hang up the well-shaped rudder over the smoke. You yourself
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: wait until the season for sailing has come, and then
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: haul your swift ship down to the sea and stow
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: a convenient cargo in it. so that you may bring
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: home profit, even as your father and mine foolish Perses
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: used to sail on shipboard because he lacked sufficient livelihood.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: And one day he came to this very place, crossing
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: over a great stretch of sea. He left Aeolian Chimae
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and fled, not from riches and substance, but from wretched
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: poverty which Zeus lays upon men. and he settled near
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Helicon in a miserable hamlet, Ascra, which is bad in winter,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: sultry in summer, and good at no time. But you, Perses,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: remember all works in their season, but sailing especially. Admire
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: a small ship, but put your freight in a large one,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: for the greater the lading, the greater will be your
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: piled gain, if only the winds will keep back their
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: harmful gales. If ever you turn your misguided heart to trading,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and wish to escape from debt and joyless hunger, I
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: will show you the measures of the loud roaring sea,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: though I have no skill in seafaring nor in ships,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: for never yet have I sailed by ship over the
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: wide sea, but only to Euboea from Aulis, where the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Achaeans once stayed through much storm when they had gathered
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: a great host from divine Hellas for Troy, the land
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: of fair women. Then I crossed over to Calchas to
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the games of wise Amphidamus, where the sons of the
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: great-hearted hero proclaimed and appointed prizes. And there I boast
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: that I gained the victory with a song, and carried
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: off a handled tripod which I dedicated to the muses
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: of Helicon, in the place where they first set me
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: in the way of clear song. Such is all my
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: experience of many pegged ships. Nevertheless, I will tell you
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the will of Zeus who holds the ages, for the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: muses have taught me to sing in marvellous songs. Fifty
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: days after the solstice, when the season of wearisome heat
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: is come to an end, is the right time for
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: men to go sailing. Then you will not wreck your ship,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: nor will the sea destroy the sailors, unless Poseidon the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: earth-shaker be set upon it, or Zeus the king of
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the deathless gods wish to slay them. For the issues
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of good and evil alike are with them. At that
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: time the winds are steady, and the sea is harmless.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Then trust in the winds without care. and haul your
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: swift ship down to the sea, and put all the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: freight on board, but make all haste you can to
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: return home again, and do not wait till the time
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: of the new wine and autumn rain, and oncoming storms,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: with the fierce gales of notice, who accompanies the heavy
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: autumn rain of Zeus, and stirs up the sea, and
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: makes the deep dangerous. Another time for men to go
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: sailing is in spring, when a man first sees leaves
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: on the topmost shoot of a fig tree as large
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: as the footprint that a crow makes. Then the sea
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: is passable, and this is the spring sailing time. For
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: my part I do not praise it, for my heart
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: does not like it. Such a sailing is snatched, and
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you will hardly avoid mischief. Yet in their ignorance men
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: do even this, for wealth means life to poor mortals.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: But it is fearful to die among the waves. But
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I bid you consider all these things in your heart
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: as I say. Do not put all your goods in
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: hollow ships. Leave the greater part behind, and put the
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: lesser part on board. For it is a bad business
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: to meet with disaster among the waves of the sea,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: as it is bad if you put too great a
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: load on your wagon and break the axle, and your
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: goods are spoiled. Observe due measure, and proportion is best
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: in all things. Bring home a wife to your house
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: when you are of the right age. While you are
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: not far short of 30 years nor much above, this
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: is the right age for marriage. Let your wife have
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: been grown up four years and marry her in the fifth.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Marry a maiden so that you can teach her careful ways,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and especially marry one who lives near you. But look
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: well about you and see that your marriage will not
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: be a joke to your neighbors. For a man wins
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: nothing better than a good wife, and again nothing worse
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: than a bad one. a greedy soul who roasts her
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: man without fire, strong though he may be, and brings
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: him to a raw old age. Be careful to avoid
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: the anger of the deathless gods. Do not make a
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: friend equal to a brother, but if you do, do
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: not wrong him first, and do not lie to please
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the tongue. But if he wrongs you first, offending either
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: in word or in deed, remember to repay him double.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: But if he asks you to be his friend again
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: and be ready to give you satisfaction, welcome him. He
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: is a worthless man who makes now one and now
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: another his friend. But as for you, do not let
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: your face put your heart to shame. Do not get
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: a name either as lavish or as churlish, as a
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Never dare to taunt a man with deadly poverty which
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: eats out the heart. It is sent by the deathless gods.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and the greatest pleasure one that moves orderly. For if
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you speak evil, you yourself will soon be worse spoken of.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Do not be boorish at a common feast where there
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: are many guests. The pleasure is greatest, and the expense
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: is least. Never pour a libation of sparkling wine to
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Zeus after dawn with unwashed hands, nor to others of
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the deathless gods. Otherwise they do not hear your prayers,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: but spit them back. Do not stand upright facing the
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: sun when you make water, but remember to do this
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: when he is set and towards his rising. And do
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: not make water as you go, whether on the road
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: or off the road, and do not uncover yourself. The
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: nights belong to the blessed gods. A scrupulous man who
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: has a wise heart sits down or goes to the
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: wall of an enclosed court. Do not expose yourself befouled
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: by the fireside in your house, but avoid this. Do
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: not beget children when you are come back from ill-omened burial,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: but after a festival of the gods. Never cross the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: sweet flowing water of ever-rolling rivers afoot until you have prayed,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: gazing into the soft flood, and washed your hands in
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the clear, lovely water. Whoever crosses a river with hands
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: unwashed of wickedness The gods are angry with him, and
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: bring trouble upon him afterwards. At a cheerful festival of
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the gods, do not cut the withered from the quick
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: upon that which has five branches with bright steel. Never
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: put the ladle upon the mixing bowl at a wine party,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: for malignant ill luck is attached to that. When you
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: are building a house, do not leave it rough-hewn, or
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: a cawing crow may settle on it and croak. Take
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: nothing to eat or to wash with from uncharmed pots,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: for in them there is mischief. Do not let a
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: boy of twelve years sit on things which may not
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: be moved, for that is bad, and makes a man unmanly.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Nor yet a child of twelve months, for that has
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the same effect. A man should not clean his body
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: with water in which a woman has washed, for there
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: is bitter mischief in that also for a time. When
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: you come upon a burning sacrifice, do not make a
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: mock of mysteries, for heaven is angry at this also.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Never make water in the mouths of rivers which flow
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: to the sea, nor yet in springs, but be careful
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: to avoid this. And do not ease yourself in them.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: It is not well to do this. So do, and
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: people voice her. Even talk is in some ways divine.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Mark the days which come from Zeus, duly telling your
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: slaves of them, and that the thirtieth day of the
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: month is best for one to look over the work
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: and to deal out supplies. For these are days which
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: come from Zeus, the all-wise, when men discern aright. To
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: begin with, the first, the fourth, and the seventh, on
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: which Leto bore Apollo with the blade of gold, each
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: is a holy day. The eighth and the ninth, two
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: days at least of the waxing month, are especially good
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: for the works of man. Also the eleventh and twelfth
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: are both excellent alike for shearing sheep and for reaping
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the kindly fruits. But the twelfth is much better than
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the eleventh, for on it the airy swinging spider spins
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: its web in full day, and then the wise one
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: gathers her pile. On that day, a woman should set
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: up her loom and get forward with her work. Avoid
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the 13th of the waxing month for beginning to sow,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: yet it is the best day for setting plants. The
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: 6th of the mid-month is very unfavorable for plants, but
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: is good for the birth of males, though unfavorable for
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: a girl either to be born at all or to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: be married. Nor is the first 6th a fit day
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: for a girl to be born. but are kindly for
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: gelding kids and sheep, and for fencing in a sheep coat.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: It is favorable for the birth of a boy, but
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: such will be fond of sharp speech, lies, cunning words,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and stealthy conversation. On the eighth of the month, geld
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the boar and loud bellowing bull, but hard-working mules on
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: the twelfth. On the great twentieth, in full day, a
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: wise man should be born. Such a one is very sound-witted.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: The tenth is favourable for a male to be born,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: but for a girl the fourth day of the mid-month.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: On that day tame sheep and shambling, horned oxen, and
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the sharp-fanged dog and hardy mules to the touch of
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: the hand. But take care to avoid troubles which eat
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: out the heart on the fourth of the beginning and
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: ending of the month. It is a day... very fraught
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: with fate. On the fourth of the month bring home
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: your bride, but choose the omens which are best for
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: this business. Avoid fifth days. They are unkindly and terrible.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: On a fifth, they say, The Araneas assisted at the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: birth of Horcus, Oth, whom Eris, Strife, bore to trouble
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the Forsworn. Look about you very carefully, and throw out
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Demeter's holy grain upon the well-rolled threshing floor on the
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: seventh of the mid-month. Let the woodmen cut beams for
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: house-building and plenty of ships' timbers, such as are suitable
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: for ships. On the fourth day begin to build narrow ships.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: The ninth of the mid-month improves towards evening. but the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: first ninth of all is quite harmless for men. It
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: is a good day on which to beget or to
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: be born both for a male and a female. It
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: is never a wholly evil day. Again, few know that
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: the 27th of the month is best for opening a
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: wine jar and putting yolks on the necks of oxen
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and mules and swift-footed horses, and for hauling a swift
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: ship of many thwarts down to the sparkling sea. Few
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: call it by its right name. On the fourth day,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: open a jar. The fourth of the mid-month is a
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: day wholly above all. And again, few men know that
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the fourth day after the twentieth is best while it
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: is morning. Towards evening it is less good. These days
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: are a great blessing to men on earth, but the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: rest are changeable, luckless, and bring nothing. Everyone praises a
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: different day, but few know their nature. Sometimes a day
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: is a stepmother, sometimes a mother. That man is happy
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and lucky in them who knows all these things, and
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: does his work without offending the deathless gods, who discerns
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: the omens of birds, and avoids transgression. II. THE THEOGONY.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: From the Heliconian muses let us begin to sing, who
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: on soft feet about the deep blue spring and the
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: altar of the Almighty Son of Kronos. And, when they
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: have washed their tender bodies in permessus, or in the
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: horse's spring, or Olmeias, make their fair lovely dances upon
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: highest helicon, and move with vigorous feet. Thence they arise
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the Aegisholder,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: and queenly Hera of Argos, who walks on golden sandals,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: and the daughter of Zeus the Aegisholder, bright-eyed Athena, and
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the earth-holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: quick-glancing Aphrodite, and Hebe with the crown of gold, and
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: fair Dione, Leto, Iapetus, and Kronos the crafty counsellor, Eos,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and great Helios, and bright Selene, earth too, and great Oceanus,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and dark night. and the holy race of all the
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: other deathless ones that are forever. And one day they
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: under holy Helicon. And this word first the goddesses said
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: to me, the muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: holds the Aegis. Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: mere bellies. We know how to speak many false things
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: as though they were true. But we know, when we will,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to utter true things. So said the ready-voiced daughters of
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: great Zeus, and they plucked and gave me a rod,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous thing, and breathed
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: be and things that were aforetime. And they bade me
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: but ever to sing of themselves, both first and last.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: But why all this about oak or stone? Come you,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: let us begin with the muses who gladden the great
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: spirit of their father Zeus in Olympus with their songs,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: telling of things that are, and that shall be, and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: that were aforetime with consenting voice. Unwearying flows the sweet
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: sound from their lips, and the house of their father Zeus,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: the loud thunderer, is glad at the lily-like voice of
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the goddesses as it spreads abroad, and the peaks of
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: snowy Olympus resound, and the homes of the immortals. And they,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: uttering their immortal voice, celebrate in song first of all
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: the revered race of the gods from the beginning, those
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: whom earth and wide heaven begot, and the gods sprung
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: of these, givers of good things. Then next the goddesses
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: sing of Zeus, the father of gods and men, as
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: they begin and end their strain, how much he is
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the most excellent among the gods, and supreme in power.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: And again they chant the race of men and strong giants,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: and gladden the heart of Zeus within Olympus, the Olympian muses,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: daughters of Zeus, the ages-holder. Them in Payeria did Mnemosyne, Memory,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: with the father, the son of Kronos, a forgetting of
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: ills and a rest from sorrow. For nine nights did
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: wise Zeus lie with her, entering her holy bed remote
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: from the immortals. And when a year was passed, and
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the seasons came round as the months waned, and many
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: days were accomplished, she bore nine daughters, all of one mind,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: whose hearts are set upon song, and whose spirit is
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: free from care, a little way from the topmost peak
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: of snowy Olympus. There are their bright dancing-places and beautiful homes,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: and beside them the graces and chimeras, desire, live in delight.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: And they, uttering through their lips a lovely voice, sing
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the laws of all and the goodly ways of the immortals,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: uttering their lovely voice. Then went they to Olympus, delighting
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: in their sweet voice, with heavenly song, and the dark
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: earth resounded about them as they chanted, and a lovely
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: sound rose up beneath their feet as they went to
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: their father. and he was reigning in heaven, himself holding
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the lightning and glowing thunderbolt, when he had overcome by
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: might his father Cronus. And he distributed fairly to the
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: immortals their portions, and declared their privileges. These things then
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaliaia, Melpomene, and Terpsichore,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: and Erato, and Polyhymnia, and Urania, and Calliope, who is
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the chiefest of them all. For she attends on worshipful princes.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Whomever of heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and behold at his birth, they pour sweet dew upon
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: his tongue, and from his lips flow gracious words. All
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the people look towards him while he settles causes with
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: true judgments, and he, speaking surely, would soon make wise
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: and even of a great quarrel, For therefore are their
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: princes wise in heart, because when the people are being
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: misguided in their assembly, they set right the matter again
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  Speaker 1: with ease, persuading them with gentle words. And when he
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  Speaker 1: passes through a gathering, they greet him as a god
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  Speaker 1: with gentle reverence, and he is conspicuous amongst the assembled.
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  Speaker 1: Such is the holy gift of the muses to men.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: For it is through the muses and far-shooting Apollo that
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: there are singers and harpers upon the earth. but princes
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: are of Zeus, and happy is he whom the muses love.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet flows speech from his mouth, for although a man
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: has sorrow and grief in his newly troubled soul, and
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: lives in dread because his heart is distressed, yet when
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: a singer, the servant of the muses, chants the glorious
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  Speaker 1: deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who
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  Speaker 1: inhabit Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers
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  Speaker 1: not his sorrows at all. but the gifts of the
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  Speaker 1: goddesses soon turn him away from these. Hail, children of Zeus!
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  Speaker 1: Grant lovely song and celebrate the holy race of the
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: deathless gods who are forever. Those that were born of
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: earth and starry heaven and gloomy night and them that
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: briny sea did rear. Tell how at the first gods
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: and earth came to be and rivers and the boundless
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: sea with its raging swell. and the gleaming stars, and
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: the wide heaven above, and the gods who were born
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  Speaker 1: of them, givers of good things, and how they divided
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: their wealth, and how they shared their honours amongst them,
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  Speaker 1: and also how at the first they took many-folded Olympus.
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  Speaker 1: These things declare to me from the beginning, you muses
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  Speaker 1: who dwell in the house of Olympus, and tell me
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  Speaker 1: which of them first came to be. In truth, at
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  Speaker 1: first chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed earth, the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: peaks of snowy Olympus and dim Tartarus in the depth
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  Speaker 1: of the wide-pathed earth. And Eros loved, fairest among the
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind
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  Speaker 1: and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: From chaos came forth Erebus and Black Knight, but of
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: bore from union in love with Erebus. And earth first
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: bore starry heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on
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  Speaker 1: every side, and to be an ever sure abiding place
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: for the blessed gods and she brought forth long hills
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: graceful haunts of the goddess nymphs who dwell amongst the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: glens of the hills she bore also the fruitless deep
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: with his raging swell pontus without sweet union of love
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: but afterwards she lay with heaven and bore deep-swirling oceanus
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: coeus and cryus and hyperion and iapetus Theia and Rhea,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Themis and Mnemosyne, and gold-crowned Phoebe, and lovely Tethys. After
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: them was born Cronos, the wily, youngest and most terrible
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. And
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: again she bore the Cyclops, overbearing in spirit, Brontes and Stereopes,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and stubborn-hearted Arges. who gave Zeus the thunder and made
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: the thunderbolt. In all else they were like the gods,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: but one eye only was set in the midst of
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: their foreheads, and they were surnamed Cyclops, orb-eyed, because one
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: orbed eye was set in their foreheads. Strength and might
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: and craft were in their works. And again three other
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: sons were born of earth and heaven, great and doughty
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: beyond telling, Cotus and Briareus and Gaius, presumptuous children. From
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  Speaker 1: their shoulders sprang a hundred arms, not to be approached,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: and fifty heads grew from the shoulders upon the strong
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: limbs of each, and irresistible was the stubborn strength that
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: was in their great forms. For of all the children
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: that were born of earth and heaven, these were the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: most terrible, and they were hated by their own father
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: from the first. And he used to hide them all
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: away in a secret place of earth so soon as
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: each was born, and and would not suffer them to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: come up into the light. And heaven rejoiced in his
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: evil doing. But vast earth groaned within, being straightened, and
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: she thought a crafty and an evil while. Forthwith she
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: made the element of grey flint, and shaped a great sickle,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: and told her plan to her dear sons. And she spoke,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: cheering them, while she was vexed in her dear heart.
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  Speaker 1: My children, forgotten of a sinful father if you will
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: obey me we should punish the vile outrage of your
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: father for he first thought of doing shameful things so
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: she said but fear seized them all and none of
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: them uttered a word But great Cronos, the wily, took courage,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: and answered his dear mother, Mother, I will undertake to
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: do this deed, for I reverence not our father of
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: evil name, for he first thought of doing shameful things.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: So he said, and vast earth rejoiced greatly in spirit,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: and set and hid him in an ambush, and put
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: in his hands a jagged sickle, and revealed to him
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: the whole plot. And heaven came, bringing on night and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: longing for love, and he lay about earth, spreading himself
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: full upon her. Then the sun from his ambush stretched
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: forth his left hand, and in his right took the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: great long sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: his own father's members, and cast them away to fall
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: behind him. And not vainly did they fall from his hand.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: for all the bloody drops that gushed forth earth received.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: And as the seasons moved round, she bore the strong
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Erinyes and the great giants with gleaming armour, holding long
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: spears in their hands, and the nymphs, whom they call Melii,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: all over the boundless earth. And so soon as he
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: had cut off the members with flint and cast them
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: from the land into the surging sea, they were swept
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: away over the main a long time, and a white
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: it there grew a maiden. First she drew near holy Cythera,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: and from there afterwards she came to sea-girt Cyprus, and
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: up about her beneath her shapely feet. Her gods and
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: men call Aphrodite, and the foam-born goddess and rich-crowned Cytheria,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: because she grew amid the foam. and Cytheria, because she
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: reached Cythera, and Cyprogenes, because she was born in billowy Cyprus,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: and Philomedes, because she sprang from the members, and with
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: her went Eros, and comely desire followed her at her birth,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: and at the first, and as she went into the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: assembly of the gods. This honor she has from the beginning,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: and this is the portion allotted to her amongst men
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: and undying gods. the whisperings of maidens, and smiles and
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: deceits with sweet delight and love and graciousness. But these
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: sons whom he begot, himself great heaven used to call titans,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: strainers in reproach, for he said that they strained and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: did presumptuously a fearful deed, and that vengeance for it
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: would come afterwards. And night bore hateful doom and black
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: fate and death, and she bore sleep and the tribe
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: of dreams. And again the goddess Murky Night, though she
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: lay with none, bear blame and painful woe. And the Hesperides,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: who guard the rich golden apples, and the trees bearing
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: fruit beyond glorious ocean. Also she bore the destinies, and
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: ruthless avenging fates, Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos, who give
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: men at their birth both evil and good to have.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: And they pursue the transgressions of men and of gods.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: and these goddesses never cease from their dread anger until
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: they punish the sinner with a sore penalty. Also deadly
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: night bore nemesis indignation, to afflict mortal men, and after
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: her deceit and friendship, and hateful age, and hard-hearted strife.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: But abhorred strife bore painful toil and forgetfulness, and famine,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: and tearful sorrows, fightings also, Battles, murders, manslaughter, quarrels, lying words, disputes, lawlessness,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: and ruin, all of one nature, and Oath, who most
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: troubles men upon earth, when anyone willfully swears a false oath.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: And see Becat Nereus, the eldest of his children, who
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: is true and lies not, and men call him the
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: old man, because he is trusty and gentle. and does
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: not forget the laws of righteousness, but thinks just and
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: kindly thoughts. And yet again he got great Thaumes, and
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: proud Forcus, being mated with earth, and fair-cheeked Cato, and Eurybia,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: who has a heart of flint within her. And of
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Nereus and rich-haired Doris, daughter of Ocean the perfect river,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: were born children, passing lovely amongst goddesses, Ploto, Eucranti, Sao,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: and Amphitrite, and Eudora, and Thetis, Galini, and Glauki, Chemothoe, Speo, Thoe,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: and lovely Haley, and Pasithea, and Erato, and rosy-armed Eunice,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: and gracious Meliti, and Eulimene, and Agawi, Doto, Proto, Therusa,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: and Dynamene, and Nicaea, and Actea, and Protomedea, Doris, Panopea,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: and comely Galatea, and lovely Hippothoe, and rosy-armed Hipponoe, and Chimodoke,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: who with Chimatolige and Amphitrite easily calms the waves upon
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: the misty sea and the blasts of raging winds, and Chimo,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: and Iione, and rich-crowned Alamede, and Glauconome, fond of laughter,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: and Pontoporia, Liagore, Uagore, and Laumadea, and Polinoi, and Otonoi,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: and Lysianasa, and Ioarni, lovely of shape, and without blemish
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of form, and Samathi, of charming figure, and divine Minipi, Neso, Eupompi, Themisto, Pronoi,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: and Nemertes, who has the nature of her deathless father.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: These fifty daughters sprang from blameless Nereus, skilled in excellent crafts.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: and Thaumas wedded Electra, the daughter of deep-flowing ocean, and
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: she bore him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Ilo, Stormswift,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: and Occianus, swift-flyer, who on their swift wings keep pace
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: with the blasts of the winds and the birds, for
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: quickest time they dart along. And again Cato bore to
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Forcus the fair-cheeked Graei, sisters from their birth, and both
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: deathless gods and men who walk on earth call them Graei,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Pemphredo well-clad, and Saffron-robed Enyo, and the Gorgons who dwell
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: beyond glorious ocean, in the frontier land towards night, where
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: are the clear-voiced Hesperides, Theno and Uriali, and Medusa, who
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: suffered a woeful fate. She was mortal, but the two
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: were undying and grew not old. With her lay the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: dark-haired one, in a soft meadow amid spring flowers, and
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: when Perseus cut off her head, There sprang forth great
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus, who was so called because
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: he was born near the springs of ocean, and that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: other because he held a golden blade in his hands.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Now Pegasus flew away and left the earth, the mother
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: of flocks, and came to the deathless gods. And he
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: dwells in the house of Zeus and brings to wise
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Zeus the thunder and lightning. But Chrysaor was joined in
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: love to Calerhoi, the daughter of glorious ocean, and begot
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythia by
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: of ocean and killed Orthas and Eurytion the herdsman in
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: the dim stead out beyond glorious oceans. And in a
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: hollow cave she bore another monster, irresistible, in no wise
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: like either to mortal men or to the undying gods,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: even the goddess fierce Echidna, who is half a nymph
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth. And
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: there she has a cave, deep down under a hollow rock,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: far from the deathless gods and mortal men. There, then,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: and she keeps guard in a rima beneath the earth,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: all her days. Men say that Typhaeon, the terrible, outrageous,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: with glancing eyes. So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: First she bore Orthus, the hound of Geriones, And then
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: again she bore a second, a monster not to be overcome,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: and that may not be described, Cerberus, who eats raw flesh,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: the brazen-voiced hound of Hades, fifty-headed, relentless and strong. And
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: whom the goddess white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: with the mighty Heracles. And her Heracles, the son of Zeus,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: of the house of Amphitryon, together with warlike Aeolus, destroyed
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athena, the
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: spoiled driver. She was the mother of Chimera, who breathed
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed, and strong, who
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion, another of
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: a goat, and another of a snake, a fierce dragon.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: In her forepart she was a lion, in her hinder
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: part a dragon, and in her middle a goat, breathing
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: and noble Bellerophon slay. But Echidna was subject in love
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: to Orthas, and brought forth the deadly sphinx, which destroyed
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: the Cadmians, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: hills of Nemea, a plague to men. There he preyed
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: upon the tribes of her own people and had power
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: over Traetus of Nemea and Apasus. Yet the strength of
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: stout Heracles overcame him. And Cato was joined in love
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: to Forcus and bore her youngest, the awful snake who
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: guards the apples all of gold in the secret places
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: of the dark earth at its great bounds. This is
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: the offspring of Cato and Forcus. And Tethys bore to
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: ocean eddying rivers, Nihilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: and Rhesus, and the silver eddies of Achelas, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliachmon,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Isepus, and Holy Simois, and Peneus,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: and Hermas, and caecus fair stream and great sangarius ladon
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: parthenius euenus ardescus and divine scamander also she brought forth
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: a holy company of daughters who with the lord apollo
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: and the rivers have youths in their keeping to this
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: charge zeus appointed them Paitho, and Admeti, and Ianthi, and Electra,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: and Dorus, and Primno, and Urania, divine in form, Hippo, Climene, Rhodia,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: and Calerhoi, Zuxo, and Clytae, and Idia, and Pasithoe, Plexora,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: and Galaxora, and lovely Dione, Melibosis, and Thoe, and handsome Polydora, Serchius,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: lovely of form, and soft-eyed Pluto, Perseus, ionera acaste xanthi
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: petraea the fair mnesto and europa metis and eurynome and
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: telesto saffron clad chryseis and acia and charming calypso eudora
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: and tyche amphirho and ocherhoi and styx who is the
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: chiefest of them all these are the eldest daughters that
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: sprang from ocean and tethys but there are many besides
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: For there are three thousand neat-angled daughters of Ocean, who
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: are dispersed far and wide, and in every place alike
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: glorious among goddesses, and as many other rivers are there,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: babbling as they flow, sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bear.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: But their names it is hard for a mortal man
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: to tell, but people know those by which they severally dwell.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion, and bore
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: great Helios, sun, and clear Selene, moon, and Eos, dawn,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: who shines upon all that are on earth and upon
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven. And Eurybia,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: bright goddess, was joined in love to Creus, and bore
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: great Astraeus, and Pallas, and Perseus, who also was eminent
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: among all men in wisdom. And Eos bore to Astraeus
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus and Boreas headlong in his course,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: and Notus, a goddess mating in love with a god.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: And after these, Eriginia bare the star Eosphorus, dawn-bringer, and
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned. And Styx,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: the daughter of Ocean, was joined to Pallas, and bore
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: zealous emulation, and trim-angled Nike victory in the house. also
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: she brought forth kratos strength and baia force wonderful children
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: these have no house apart from zeus nor any dwelling
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: nor path except that wherein god leads them but they
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: dwell always with zeus the loud thunderer for so did
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: styx the deathless daughter of ocean plan on that day
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: when the olympian lightning god called all the deathless gods
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: to great olympus and said that whosoever of the gods
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: would fight with him against the titans he would not
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: cast him out from his rights, but each should have
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the office which he had before amongst the deathless gods.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: And he declared that he who was without office or
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: right under Kronos should be raised to both office and
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: rights as is just. So deathless Styx came first to
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Olympus with her children through the wit of her dear father.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: And Zeus honored her, and gave her very great gifts
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: for he appointed her to be the great oath of
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  Speaker 1: the gods and her children to live with him always
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  Speaker 1: and as he promised so he performed fully unto them
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  Speaker 1: all but he himself mightily reigns and rules again phoebe
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  Speaker 1: came to the desired embrace of Then the goddess, through
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  Speaker 1: the love of the god, conceived and brought forth dark-gowned Leto,
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  Speaker 1: always mild, kind to men and to the deathless gods,
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  Speaker 1: mild from the beginning, gentlest in all Olympus. Also she
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: bore Asteria of happy name, whom Perseus once led to
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  Speaker 1: his great house to be called his dear wife. And
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  Speaker 1: she conceived and bore Hecate, whom Zeus, the son of Kronos,
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  Speaker 1: honored above all. He gave her splendid gifts. to have
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  Speaker 1: a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea. She
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  Speaker 1: received honour also in starry heaven, and is honoured exceedingly
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  Speaker 1: by the deathless gods. For to this day, whenever any
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  Speaker 1: one of men on earth offers rich sacrifices and prays
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  Speaker 1: for favour according to custom, he calls upon Hecate. Great
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: honour comes full easily to him whose prayers the goddess
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  Speaker 1: receives favourably. and she bestows wealth upon him, for the
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  Speaker 1: power surely is with her. For as many as were
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  Speaker 1: born of earth and ocean amongst all these, she has
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  Speaker 1: her due portion. The son of Kronos did her no wrong,
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  Speaker 1: nor took anything away of all that was her portion
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  Speaker 1: among the former Titan gods. but she holds as the
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  Speaker 1: division was at the first from the beginning privilege both
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  Speaker 1: in earth and in heaven and in sea also because
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  Speaker 1: she is an only child the goddess receives not less
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  Speaker 1: honour but much more still for zeus honours her Whom
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  Speaker 1: she will, she greatly aids and advances. She sits by
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  Speaker 1: worshipful kings in judgment, and in the assembly whom she
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  Speaker 1: will is distinguished among the people. And when men arm
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  Speaker 1: themselves for the battle that destroys men, then the goddess
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  Speaker 1: is at hand to give victory and grant glory readily
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  Speaker 1: to whom she will. Good is she also when men
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  Speaker 1: contend at the games, for there too the goddess is
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: with them and profits them. and he who by might
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: and strength gets the victory wins the rich prize easily
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: with joy, and brings glory to his parents. And she
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  Speaker 1: is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will, and
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: to those whose business is in the grey, discomfortable sea,
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  Speaker 1: and who pray to Hecate and the loud crashing earth-shaker,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: easily the glorious goddess gives great catch, and easily she
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  Speaker 1: takes it away as soon as seen, if so she will.
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  Speaker 1: She is good in the byre with Hermes to increase
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  Speaker 1: the stock. The droves of kine and wide herds of
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: goats and flocks of fleecy sheep, if she will, she
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  Speaker 1: increases from a few, or makes many to be less.
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  Speaker 1: So then, albeit her mother's only child, she is honoured
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  Speaker 1: amongst all the deathless gods. And the son of Kronos
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  Speaker 1: made her a nurse of the young, who after that
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: day saw with their eyes the light of all-seeing dawn.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: So from the beginning she is a nurse of the young,
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  Speaker 1: and these are her honours. But Rhea was subject in
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  Speaker 1: love to Kronos, and bore splendid children, Hestia, Demeter, and
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  Speaker 1: gold-shod Hera, and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells
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  Speaker 1: under the earth, and the loud-crashing earth-shaker, and wise Zeus,
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  Speaker 1: father of gods and men, by whose thunder the wide
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: earth is shaken. These great Cronos swallowed as each came
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  Speaker 1: forth from the womb to his mother's knees with this intent,
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  Speaker 1: that no other of the proud sons of heaven should
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  Speaker 1: hold the kingly office amongst the deathless gods. For he
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: learned from earth and starry heaven that he was destined
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: to be overcome by his own son, strong though he was,
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  Speaker 1: through the contriving of great Zeus. Therefore he kept no
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  Speaker 1: blind outlook, but watched and swallowed down his children. and
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: unceasing grief seized Rhea. But when she was about to
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: bear Zeus, the father of gods and men, then she
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: besought her own dear parents, earth and starry heaven, to
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  Speaker 1: devise some plan with her that the birth of her
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  Speaker 1: dear child might be concealed, and that retribution might overtake
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  Speaker 1: great crafty Kronos for his own father, and also for
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  Speaker 1: the children whom he had swallowed down. And they readily
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  Speaker 1: heard and obeyed their dear daughter. and told her all
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  Speaker 1: that was destined to happen, touching Kronos the king and
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  Speaker 1: his stout-hearted son. So they sent her to Lyctus, to
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  Speaker 1: the rich land of Crete, when she was ready to
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: bear great Zeus, the youngest of her children. Him did
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  Speaker 1: vast earth receive from Rhea, in wide Crete, to nourish
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  Speaker 1: and to bring up. To that place came earth, carrying
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  Speaker 1: him swiftly through the black night to Lyctus first, and
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  Speaker 1: took him in her arms and hid him in a
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  Speaker 1: remote cave beneath the secret places of the holy earth
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: on thick-wooded Mount Aegeum. But to the mightily ruling son
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: of heaven, the earlier king of the gods, she gave
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  Speaker 1: a great stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. Then he took
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: it in his hands and thrust it down into his belly. Wretch!
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  Speaker 1: He knew not in his heart that in place of
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  Speaker 1: the stone his son was left behind, unconquered and untroubled.
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  Speaker 1: and that he was soon to overcome him by force,
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  Speaker 1: and might drive him from his honours, himself to reign
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: over the deathless gods. After that the strength and glorious
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: limbs of the prince increased quickly, and as the years
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: rolled on, great Kronos the wily was beguiled by the
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: deep suggestions of earth, and brought up again his offspring,
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  Speaker 1: vanquished by the arts and the might of his own son,
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  Speaker 1: and he vomited up first the stone which he had
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  Speaker 1: swallowed last, and zeus set it fast in the wide-pathed
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: earth at goodly pytho unto the glens of parnassus to
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: be a sign thenceforth and a marvel to mortal men
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: and he set free from their deadly bonds the brothers
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: of his father sons of heaven whom his father in
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: his foolishness had bound and they remembered to be grateful
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  Speaker 1: to him for his kindness, and gave him thunder and
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: the glowing thunderbolt and lightning, for before that huge earth
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: had hidden these. In them he trusts and rules over
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: mortals and immortals. Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: maid Clamene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: into one bed, and she bore him a stout-hearted son, Atlas.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Also she bore very glorious Menoetius, and clever Prometheus, full
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: of various wiles, and scatterbrained Epimetheus, who from the first
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: was a mischief to men who eat bread. For it
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: maiden whom he had formed. But Menoetius was outraged, and
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt, and sent
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: exceeding pride. And Atlas, through hard constraint, upholds the wide
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides, for this lot
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: wise Zeus assigned to him. And ready-witted Prometheus he bound
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: his middle. and set on him a long-winged eagle, which
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: used to eat his immortal liver, but by night the
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: liver grew as much again every way as the long-winged
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: bird devoured in the whole day. That bird Heracles, the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew, and delivered the son
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: his affliction, not without the will of Olympian Zeus, who
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: reigns on high. that the glory of Heracles the Thebian-born
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: might be yet greater than it was before over the
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: plenteous earth. This then he regarded and honored his famous son.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Though he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: he had before, because Prometheus matched himself in wit with
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  Speaker 1: the almighty son of Kronos. For when the gods and
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: mortal men had a dispute at Mycone, even then Prometheus
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: was forward to cut up a great ox and set
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: portions before them, trying to deceive the mind of Zeus.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Before the rest he set flesh and inner parts thick
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: with fat upon the hide, covering them with an ox-ponch.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: But for Zeus he put the white bones dressed up
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: with cunning art and covered with shining fat. Then the
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  Speaker 1: father of men and gods said to him, Son of Iapetus,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: most glorious of all lords, good sir, how unfairly you
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: have divided the portions. So said Zeus, whose wisdom is everlasting,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: rebuking him. But wily Prometheus answered him, smiling softly and
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: not forgetting his cunning trick. Zeus, most glorious and greatest
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: of the eternal gods, take whichever of these portions your
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: heart within you bids. So he said, thinking trickery. But Zeus,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: whose wisdom is everlasting, saw and failed not to perceive
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: the trick. and in his heart he thought mischief against
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: mortal men, which also was to be fulfilled. With both
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: hands he took up the white fat, and was angry
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: at heart, and wrath came to his spirit when he
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: saw the white ox-bones craftily tricked out. And because of
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: this the tribes of men upon earth burn white bones
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: to the deathless gods upon fragrant altars. But Zeus, who
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: drives the clouds, was greatly vexed and said to him,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: Son of Iapetus, clever above all, so, sir, you have
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: not yet forgotten your cunning arts. So spake Zeus in anger,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: whose wisdom is everlasting. And from that time he was
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: always mindful of the trick, and would not give the
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: power of unwearying fire to the Melian race of mortal
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: men who live on the earth. But the noble son
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: of Iapetus outwitted him, and stole the far-seen gleam of
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: unwearying fire in a hollow fennel-stalk. And Zeus, who thunders
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: on high, was stung in spirit, and his dear heart
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: of fire. Forthwith he made an evil thing for men
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: as the price of fire. For the very famous limping
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: god formed of earth the likeness of a shy maiden
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: as the son of Kronos willed. and the goddess bright-eyed
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: Athena girded and clothed her with silvery raiment, and down
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: from her head she spread with her hands an embroidered veil,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: a wonder to see. And she, Pallas Athena, put about
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: her head lovely garlands, flowers of new-grown herbs. Also she
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: put upon her head a crown of gold, which the
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: very famous limping god made himself, and worked with his
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: own hands, as a favour to Zeus his father. On
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: it was much curious work, wonderful to see. For of
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: the many creatures which the land and sea rear up,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: he put most upon it, wonderful things, like living beings
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: with voices, and great beauty shone out from it. But
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: when he had made the beautiful evil to be the
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: price for the blessing, he brought her out, delighting in
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: the finery which the bright-eyed daughter of a mighty father
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: had given her, to the place where the other gods
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: and men were. And wonder took hold of the deathless
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: gods and mortal men, when they saw that which was
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: sheer guile not to be withstood by men. For from
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  Speaker 1: her is the race of women and female kind. Of
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: her is the deadly race and tribe of women, who
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: live amongst mortal men to their great trouble. No help
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: meets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth. And as
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: in thatched hives, bees feed the drones whose nature is
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: to do mischief. By day and throughout the day, until
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: the sun goes down, the bees are busy and lay
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: the white combs, while the drones stay at home in
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: the covered hives and reap the toil of others into
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: their own bellies. Even so Zeus, who thunders on high,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: made women to be an evil to mortal men, with
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: a nature to do evil. And he gave them a
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: second evil to be the price for the good they had.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: tend his years. And though he at least has no
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: lack of livelihood while he lives, yet, when he is dead,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: his kinfolk divide his possessions amongst them. And as for
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: the man who chooses the lot of marriage and takes
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: a good wife suited to his mind, evil continually contends
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: with good. For whoever happens to have mischievous children lives
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: always with unceasing grief in his spirit and heart within him,
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: and this evil cannot be healed. So it is not
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: for not even the son of Iapetus, kindly Prometheus, escaped
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: his heavy anger. But of necessity strong bands confined him,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: although he knew many a while. But when first their
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: father was vexed in his heart with Oryrius and Cotus
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: and Gaius, he bound them in cruel bonds, because he
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: was jealous of their exceeding manhood and comeliness and great size,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: and he made them live beneath the wide-pathed earth, where
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: they were afflicted, being set to dwell under the ground,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: at the end of the earth, at its great borders,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: in bitter anguish for a long time, and with great
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: grief at heart. But the son of Kronos and the
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: other deathless gods, whom rich-haired Rhea bore from union with Kronos,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: brought them up again to the light at earth's advising.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: For she herself recounted all things to the gods fully,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: how with these they might gain victory and a glorious
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: cause to vaunt themselves. For the Titan gods, and as
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: many as sprang from Kronos, had long been fighting together
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: in stubborn war with heart-grieving toil. The lordly Titans from
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: high Othrys, but the gods, givers of good, whom rich-haired
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: Rhea bore in union with Kronos from Olympus. So they,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: with bitter wrath, were fighting continually with one another at
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: that time for ten full years, and the hard strife
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: had no close or end for either side. and the
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: issue of the war hung evenly balanced. But when he
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: had provided those three with all things fitting, nectar and
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: ambrosia which the gods themselves eat, and when their proud
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: spirit revived within them all, after they had fed on
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: nectar and delicious ambrosia, then it was that the Father
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: of men and gods spoke amongst them. Hear me, bright
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: children of earth and heaven, that I may say what
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: my heart within me bids. A long while now have we,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: who are sprung from Cronus and the Titan gods, fought
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: with each other every day to get victory and to prevail.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: But show your great might and unconquerable strength, and face
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: the Titans in bitter strife. For remember our friendly kindness,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and from what sufferings you are come back to the
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: light from your cruel bondage under misty gloom through our counsels.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: So he said, and blameless Cotus answered him again, Divine One,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: you speak that which we know well. Know, even of
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: ourselves we know, that your wisdom and understanding is exceeding,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: and that you became a defender of the deathless ones
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: from chill doom. And through your devising we have come
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: back again from the murky gloom and from our merciless bonds,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: enjoying what we looked not for, O Lord, Son of Kronos.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: And so now, with fixed purpose and deliberate counsel, we
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: will aid your power in dreadful strife, and will fight
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: against the Titans in hard battle. So he said, and
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: the gods, givers of good things, applauded when they heard
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: his word, and their spirit longed for war even more
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: than before. And they all, both male and female, stirred
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: up hated battle that day, the Titan gods and all
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: that were born of Kronos together with those dread, mighty
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: ones of overwhelming strength, whom Zeus brought up to the
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: light from Erebus beneath the earth. A hundred arms sprang
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: from the shoulders of all alike, and each had fifty
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: heads growing from his shoulders upon stout limbs. These then
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: stood against the Titans in grim strife, holding huge rocks
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: in their strong hands. And on the other part the
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Titans eagerly strengthened their ranks, and both sides at one
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: time showed the work of their hands and their might.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: The boundless sea rang terribly around, and the earth crashed loudly.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Wide heaven was shaken and groaned, and high Olympus reeled
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: from its foundation under the charge of the undying gods,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: and a heavy quaking reached dim Tartarus and the deep
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: sound of their feet in the fearful onset and of
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: their hard missiles. So then they launched their grievous shafts
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: upon one another, and the cry of both armies as
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: they shouted reached to starry heaven, and they met together
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: with a great battle cry. Then Zeus no longer held
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: back his might, but straight his heart was filled with fury,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: and he showed forth all his strength. From heaven and
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: from Olympus he came immediately. Hurling his lightning, the bolts
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: flew thick and fast from his strong hand, together with
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: thunder and lightning, whirling an awesome flame. The life-giving earth
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: crashed around in burning, and the vast wood crackled loud
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: with fire all about. All the land seethed, and ocean
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: streams and the unfruitful sea. The hot vapor lapped round
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: the earth-born titans. Flame unspeakable rose to the bright upper air.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: The flashing glare of the thunderstone and lightning blinded their
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: eyes for all that they were strong. Astounding heat seized chaos.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: And to see with eyes and to hear the sound
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: with ears, it seemed even as if earth and wide
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  Speaker 1: heaven above came together. For such a mighty crash would
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  Speaker 1: have arisen if earth were being hurled to ruin, and
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  Speaker 1: heaven from on high were hurling her down. So a
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  Speaker 1: great crash was there while the gods were meeting together
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: in strife. Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and dust storm,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt which are the
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: shafts of great zeus and carried the clangour and the
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: war-cry into the midst of the two hosts a horrible
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: uproar of terrible strife arose mighty deeds were shown and
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  Speaker 1: the battle inclined But until then, they kept at one another,
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  Speaker 1: and fought continually in cruel war. And amongst the foremost,
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  Speaker 1: Katos and Briarios and Gaius, insatiate for war, raised fierce fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Three hundred rocks, one upon another, they launched from their
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  Speaker 1: strong hands, and overshadowed the Titans with their missiles, and
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: hurled them beneath the wide-pathed earth, and bound them in
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  Speaker 1: bitter chains when they had conquered them by their strength
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  Speaker 1: for all their great spirit. as far beneath the earth
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  Speaker 1: as heaven is above earth. For so far is it
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  Speaker 1: from earth to Tartarus. For a brazen anvil falling down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven nine nights and days would reach the earth
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  Speaker 1: upon the tenth. And again a brazen anvil falling from
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  Speaker 1: earth nine nights and days would reach Tartarus upon the tenth.
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  Speaker 1: Round it runs a fence of bronze, and night spreads
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  Speaker 1: in triple line all about it like a neck circlet.
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  Speaker 1: while above grow the roots of the earth and unfruitful sea.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: There by the counsel of Zeus who drives the clouds,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: the titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in a
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: dank place where are the ends of the huge earth,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: and they may not go out. For Poseidon fixed gates
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  Speaker 1: of bronze upon it, and a wall runs all around
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  Speaker 1: it on every side. There Gaius and Cotus and great-souled
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: Oryx live, trusty warders of Zeus, who holds the Aegis.
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  Speaker 1: And there, all in their order, are the sources and
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  Speaker 1: ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus, and the unfruitful
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  Speaker 1: sea and starry heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: gods abhor. It is a great gulf, and if once
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: a man were within the gates he would not reach
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  Speaker 1: the floor until a whole year had reached its end
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  Speaker 1: but cruel blast upon blast would carry him this way
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  Speaker 1: and that and this marvel is awful even to the
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: deathless gods there stands the awful home of murky night
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: wrapped in dark clouds In front of it the son
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: of Iapetus stands immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his
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  Speaker 1: head and unwearying hands, where night and day draw near
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  Speaker 1: and greet one another as they pass the great threshold
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  Speaker 1: of bronze. And while the one is about to go
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: down into the house, the other comes out at the door,
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  Speaker 1: and the house never holds them both within, but always
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  Speaker 1: one is without the house passing over the earth, while
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  Speaker 1: the other stays at home and waits until the time
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: for her journeying comes. and the one holds all-seeing light
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: for them on earth, but the other holds in her
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  Speaker 1: arms sleep, the brother of death, even evil night wrapped
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: in a vaporous cloud. And there the children of dark
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: night have their dwellings, sleep and death, awful gods. The
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: glowing sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven. and the former of them roams peacefully
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  Speaker 1: over the earth, and the seas brought back, and is
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: kindly to men. But the other has a heart of iron,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze. Whomever
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: of men he has once seized he holds fast, and
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: he is hateful even to the deathless gods. There in
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  Speaker 1: front stand the echoing halls of the god of the
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: lower world, strong Hades, and of awful Persephone. A fearful
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: hound guards the house in front, pitiless, and he has
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: a cruel trick. On those who go in he fawns
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  Speaker 1: with his tail and both his ears, but suffers them
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  Speaker 1: not to go out back again, but keeps watch and
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: devours whomever he catches going out of the gates of
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: strong Hades and awful Persephone. And there dwells the goddess
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  Speaker 1: loathed by the deathless gods' terrible Styx, eldest daughter of
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: back-flowing Ocean. She lives apart from the gods in her
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  Speaker 1: glorious house, vaulted over with great rocks and propped up
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  Speaker 1: to heaven all round with silver pillars. Rarely does the
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Thomas, swift-footed Iris, come to her with a
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  Speaker 1: message over the seas wide back. But when strife and
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: quarrel arise among the deathless gods, and when any one
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: of them who live in the house of Olympus lies,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: then Zeus sends Iris to bring in a golden jug
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: the great oath of the gods from far away, the
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: famous cold water which trickles down from a high and
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: beetling rock. Far under the wide-pathed earth, a branch of
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Oceanus flows through the dark night out of the holy stream,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: and a tenth part of his water is allotted to her.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: With nine silver swirling streams, he winds about the earth
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  Speaker 1: and seas wide back, and then falls into the main.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: But the tenth flows out from a rock, a sore
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: trouble to the gods. For whoever of the deathless gods
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a libation
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: of her water and is forsworn, must lie breathless until
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: a full year is completed, and never come near to
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  Speaker 1: taste ambrosia and nectar, but lie spiritless and voiceless on
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: a strewn bed, and a heavy trance overshadows him. But
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: when he has spent a long year in his sickness,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: another penance, more hard, follows after the first. For nine
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: years he is cut off from the eternal gods and
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: never joins their councils or their feasts, nine full years.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: But in the tenth year, he comes again to join
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: the assemblies of the deathless gods who live in the
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: house of Olympus. Such an oath, then, did the gods
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: appoint the eternal and primeval water of Styx to be,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: and it spouts through a rugged place. And there, all
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: in their order, are the sources and ends of the
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: dark earth and misty tartarus and the unfruitful sea and
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: starry heaven loathsome and dank which even the gods abhor
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: and there are shining gates and an immovable threshold of
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: bronze having unending roots and it is grown of itself
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: and beyond away from all the gods live the titans
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: beyond gloomy chaos but the glorious allies of loud-crashing zeus
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: have their dwelling upon ocean's foundations even cotus and gaius
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: but parios being goodly the deep-roaring earth-shaker made his son-in-law
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: giving him simopalia his daughter to wed but when zeus
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: had driven the titans from heaven Huge earth bore her
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: youngest child, Typhoeus, of the love of Tartarus, by the
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: aid of golden Aphrodite. Strength was with his hands in
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: all that he did, and the feet of the strong
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: god were untiring. From his shoulders grew a hundred heads
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: of a snake, a fearful dragon with dark flickering tongues,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: and from under the brows of his eyes in his
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: marvelous heads flashed fire, and fire burned from his heads
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: as he glared. and there were voices in all his
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: dreadful heads, which uttered every kind of sound unspeakable. For
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: at one time they made sounds such that the gods understood,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: but at another the noise of a bull bellowing aloud
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: in proud, ungovernable fury, and at another the sound of
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: a lion, relentless of heart, and at another sounds like whelps,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: wonderful to hear, and again at another he would hiss,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: so that the high mountains re-echoed. and truly a thing
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: past help would have happened on that day, and he
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: would have come to reign over mortals and immortals, had
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: not the Father of men and gods been quick to
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: perceive it. But he thundered hard and mightily, and the
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: earth around resounded terribly, and the wide heaven above, and
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: the sea, and ocean streams, and the nether parts of
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: the earth, Great Olympus reeled beneath the divine feet of
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: the king as he arose, and earth groaned thereat. And
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: through the two of them heat took hold on the
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: dark blue sea, through the thunder and lightning and through
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: the fire from the monster and the scorching winds and
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: blazing thunderbolt. The whole earth seethed, and sky and sea.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: and the long waves raged along the beaches round and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: about at the rush of the deathless gods, and there
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: arose an endless shaking. Hades trembled where he rules over
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: the dead below, and the Titans under Tartarus who live
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: with Cronos, because of the unending clamor and the fearful strife.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: So when Zeus had raised up his might and seized
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: his arms, thunder and lightning and lurid thunderbolt he leaped
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: from Olympus and struck him and burned all the marvellous
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: heads of the monster about him. But when Zeus had
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: conquered him and lashed him with strokes, Typhoeus was hurled down,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: a maimed wreck, so that the huge earth groaned, and
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: flame shot forth from the thunder-stricken lord in the dim
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: rugged glens of the mount when he was smitten. A
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: great part of huge earth was scorched by the terrible
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: vapor and melted as tin melts when heated by man's
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: art in channeled crucibles, or as iron, which is hardest
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: of all things, is shortened by glowing fire in mountain
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: glens and melts in the divine earth through the strength
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: of Hephaestus. Even so, then, THE EARTH MELTED IN THE
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  Speaker 1: GLOW OF THE BLAZING FIRE, AND IN THE BITTERNESS OF
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: HIS ANGER ZEUS CAST HIM INTO WIDE TARTARUS, AND FROM
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: TYPHOEUS COME BOISTROUS WINDS WHICH BLOW DAMPLY, EXCEPT NOTUS, AND BOREUS,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: AND CLEAR ZEPHER. THESE ARE A GOD-SENT KIND, AND A
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: GREAT BLESSING TO MEN, BUT THE OTHERS BLOW FITFULLY UPON
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: THE SEA. Some rush upon the misty sea and work
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: great havoc among men with their evil, raging blasts. For
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: varying with the season they blow, scattering ships and destroying sailors.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: And men who meet these upon the sea have no
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: help against the mischief. Others again over the boundless flowering
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: earth spoil the fair fields of men who dwell below,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: filling them with dust and cruel uproar. But when the
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: blessed gods had finished their toil, and settled by force
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: their struggle for honours with the Titans, they pressed far-seeing
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: Olympian Zeus to reign and to rule over them, by
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: earth's prompting. So he divided their dignities amongst them. Now Zeus,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: king of the gods, made Metis his wife first, and
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: she was wisest among gods and mortal men. But when
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athena,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words, and put her
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: in his own belly, as earth and starry heaven advise.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: For they advised him so, to the end that no
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: other should hold royal sway over the eternal gods in
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: place of Zeus. For very wise children were destined to
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: be born of her, first the maiden bright-eyed Tritogenia, equal
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: to her father in strength and in wise understanding. but
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: afterwards she was to bear a son of overbearing spirit,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: king of gods and men. But Zeus put her into
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: his own belly first, that the goddess might devise for
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: him both good and evil. Next he married bright Themis,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: who bore the Horai, ours, and Eunomia, order, Deike, justice,
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: and blooming Erini, peace, who mind the works of mortal men,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: and the Moerai, fates, to whom wise Zeus gave the
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: greatest honour, Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos, who give mortal
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: men evil and good to have, and Eurynome, the daughter
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: of Ocean, beautiful in form, bore him three fair-cheeked charities, graces,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: Aglaea and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thalaea, from whose eyes as
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs, and beautiful
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: is their glance beneath their brows. Also he came to
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bore white-armed Persephone,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: whom Idonius carried off from her mother, but wise Zeus
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: gave her to him. And again he loved Nemesani with
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: the beautiful hair, and of her the nine gold-crowned muses
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: were born, who delight in feasts and the pleasures of song.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: and leta was joined in love with zeus who holds
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: the ages and bore apollo and artemis delighting in arrows
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: children lovely above all the sons of heaven lastly he
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: made hera his blooming wife and she was joined in
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  Speaker 1: love with the king of gods and men and brought
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: forth hebe and ares and alethea But Zeus himself gave
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: birth from his own head to bright-eyed Tritogenia, the awful,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: the strife-stirring, the host-leader, the unwearying, the queen, who delights
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: in tumults and wars and battles. But Hera, without union
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: with Zeus, for she was very angry and quarreled with
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: her mate, bare famous Hephaestus, who is skilled in crafts
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: more than all the sons of heaven. But Hera was
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: very angry and quarrelled with her mate, and because of
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: this strife she bore without union with Zeus, who holds
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: the Aegis a glorious son Hephaestus, who excelled all the
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: sons of heaven in crafts. But Zeus lay with fair-cheeked
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: daughter of Ocean and Tethys, apart from Hera, deceiving Metis, thought,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: although she was full wise. But he seized her with
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: his hands and put her in his belly, for fear
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: that she might bring forth something stronger than his thunderbolt.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: Therefore did Zeus, who sits on high and dwells in
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: the ether, swallow her down suddenly. But she straightway conceived
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: Pallas Athena, and the father of men and gods gave
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: her birth by way of his head on the banks
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: of the river Trito. and she remained hidden beneath the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: inward parts of Zeus, even Metis, Athena's mother, worker of righteousness,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: who was wiser than gods and mortal men. There the
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: goddess Athena received that whereby she excelled in strength all
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: the deathless, lest ones who dwell in Olympus, she who
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: made the host-scaring weapon of Athena, and with it Zeus
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: gave her birth, arrayed in arms of war. And of Amphitrite,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: and the loud-roaring earth-shaker, was born great, wide-ruling Triton, and
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: he owns the depths of the sea, living with his
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: dear mother and the lord his father in their golden house,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: an awful god. Also, Cytheria bore to Ares the shield-piercer
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: panic and fear, terrible gods, who drive in disorder the
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: close ranks of men in numbing war, with the help
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: of Ares, sacker of towns. and Harmonia, whom high-spirited Cadmus
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: made his wife. And Maia, the daughter of Atlas, bore
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: to Zeus glorious Hermes, the herald of the deathless gods,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: for she went up into his holy bed. And Semele,
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: daughter of Cadmus, was joined with him in love, and
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: bore him a splendid son, joyous Dionysus, a mortal woman,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: an immortal son, and now they both are gods. And
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: Alcmene was joined in love with Zeus, who drives the
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: clouds and bore mighty Heracles. And Hephaestus, the famous lame one,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: made Aglaia, youngest of the graces, his buxom wife. And
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: golden-haired Dionysus made brown-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: buxom wife. And the son of Kronos made her deathless
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: and unaging for him. And mighty Heracles, the valiant son
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: of neat-ankled Alcmene, when he had finished his grievous toils,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: made Hebe, the child of great Zeus and gold-shot Hera,
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: his shy wife in snowy Olympus. Happy he! For he
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: has finished his great work and lives amongst the undying gods,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: untroubled and unaging all his days. And Perseus, the daughter
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: of Ocean, bore to unwearying Helios, Circe, and Aetes the king.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: And Aetes, the son of Helios, who shows light to men,
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: took to wife fair-cheeked Idia, daughter of Ocean, the perfect stream,
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: by the will of the gods. And she was subject
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: to him in love through golden Aphrodite, and bore him
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: neat-ankled Medea. And now farewell, you dwellers on Olympus, and
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: you islands and continents, and you briny sea within. Now
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: sing the company of goddesses, sweet-voiced muses of Olympus, daughter
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: of Zeus who holds the Aegis, even those deathless ones
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: who lay with mortal men and bore children like gods. Demeter,
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: Iason in a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Crete,
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: and bore Plutus, a kindly god who goes everywhere over
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: land and the seas wide back. and he makes rich
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: the man who finds him, and into whose hands he comes,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: bestowing great wealth upon him. And Harmonia, the daughter of
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino, and Semele, and fair-cheeked Agave,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: and Otonoe, whom long-haired Aristaius wedded, and Polydorus also in
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: rich-crowned Thebes. And the daughter of Ocean, Calerhoe, was joined
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: in the love of rich Aphrodite with stout-hearted Chrysaor, and
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: bore a son who was the strongest of all men, Geriones,
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: whom mighty Heracles killed in secret Erythia for the sake
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: of his shambling oxen. And Eos bore to Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon,
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  Speaker 1: king of the Ethiopians, and the lord Amathion, And to
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  Speaker 1: Cephalus she bore a splendid son, strong Phaethon, a man
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  Speaker 1: like the gods, whom, when he was a young boy
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: in the tender flower of glorious youth with childish thoughts,
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: laughter-loving Aphrodite he seized and caught up and made a
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: keeper of her shrine by night, a divine spirit. And
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: the son of Ison, by the will of the gods,
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: led away from Aetes, the daughter of Aetes, the heaven-nurtured king,
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  Speaker 1: when he had finished the many grievous labours which the
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: great king, overbearing Peleus, that outrageous and presumptuous doer of violence,
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  Speaker 1: put upon him. But when the son of Ison had
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: finished them, he came to Iolcus after long toil, bringing
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  Speaker 1: the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship, and
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: made her his buxom wife. And she was subject to Iason,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: shepherd of the people, and bore a son, Medeus, whom Chiron,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: the son of Philaera, brought up in the mountains, and
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: the will of great Zeus was fulfilled. But of the
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: daughters of Nereus, the old man of the sea, Samathi,
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  Speaker 1: the fair goddess, was loved by Iacus through golden Aphrodite,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: and bore Phocis. And the silver-shod goddess Thetis was subject
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: to Peleus, and brought forth lion-hearted Achilles, the destroyer of men.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: And Cytheria, with the beautiful crown, was joined in sweet
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  Speaker 1: love with the hero Anchises, and bore Aeneas, on the
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: peaks of Ida, with its many wooded glens. And Circe,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: the daughter of Helios, Hyperion's son, loved steadfast Odysseus, and
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: bore Agrius and Latinus, who was faultless and strong. Also
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.
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  Speaker 1: And they ruled over the famous Tercenians, very far off,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: in a recess of the holy islands. And the bright
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: goddess Calypso was joined to Odysseus in sweet love, and
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: bore him Nositoas and Nasinoas. These are the immortal goddesses
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: who lay with mortal men and bore them children like gods.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: But now, sweet-voiced muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: hold the ages, sing of the company of women. End
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: of section 2 or like her who left home and
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: country and came to thebes following warlike amphitryon even alcmena
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of electryon gatherer of the people she surpassed
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  Speaker 1: the tribe of womankind in beauty and in height and
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  Speaker 1: in wisdom none vied with her of those whom mortal
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: women bore of union with mortal men. Her face and
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: her dark eyes wafted such charm as comes from golden Aphrodite,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: and she so honoured her husband in her heart as
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: none of womankind did before her. In truth, he had
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  Speaker 1: slain her noble father violently when he was angry about Oxen,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: so he left his own country and came to Thebes.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: and was suppliant to the shield-carrying men of Cadmus. There
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: he dwelt with his modest wife, without the joys of love,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: nor might he go in unto the neat-ankled daughter of Electrion,
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  Speaker 1: until he had avenged the death of his wife's great-hearted brothers,
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: and utterly burned with blazing fire the villages of the heroes,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: the Taphians and the Teleboans. For this thing was laid
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: upon him, and the gods were witnesses to it. And
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: he feared their anger, and hastened to perform the great
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: task to which Zeus had bound him. With him went
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: the horse-driving Boetians, breathing above their shields, and the Locrians,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: who fight hand to hand, and the gallant Phocaeans, eager
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: for war and battle. And the noble son of Alcaeus
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: led them, rejoicing in his host. But the father of
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: men and gods was forming another scheme in his heart,
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: to beget one to defend against destruction, gods and men
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: who eat bread. So he arose from Olympus by night,
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: pondering guile in the deep of his heart, and yearned
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: for the love of the well-girded woman. Quickly he came
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: to Typhonium, and from there again wise Zeus went on,
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: and trod the highest peak of Phicium. There he sat
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: and planned marvellous things in his heart. So in one
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: night zeus shared the bed in love of the neat-angled
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: daughter of electreon and fulfilled his desire and in the
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: same night amphitryon gatherer of the people the glorious hero
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: came to his house when he had ended his great
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: task he hastened not to go to his bondmen and
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: shepherds afield but first went in to his wife such
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: desire took hold on the shepherd of the people and
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: as a man who has escaped joyfully from misery whether
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: of sore disease or cruel bondage, so then did Amphitryon,
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: when he had wound up all his heavy task, come
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  Speaker 1: glad and welcome to his home. And all night long
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: he lay with his modest wife, delighting in the gifts
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: of golden Aphrodite. And she, being subject in love to
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: a god and to a man exceedingly goodly, brought forth
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: twin sons in seven-gated Thebes. Though they were brothers, these
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: were not of one spirit. for one was weaker, but
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: the other a far better man, one terrible and strong,
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: the mighty Heracles. She bore him through the embrace of
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: the son of Kronos, lord of dark clouds, and the other, Iphicles,
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: of Amphitryon, the spear-wielder, offspring distinct, this one of union
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: with a mortal man, but that other of union with Zeus,
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: leader of all the gods. And he slew Cygnus, the
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: gallant son of Ares. For he found him in the
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: precinct of far-shooting Apollo. Him and his father Ares never
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: sated with war. Their armor shone like a flame of
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: blazing fire as they two stood in their chariot. Their
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: swift horses struck the earth and pawed it with their hooves,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: and the dust rose like smoke about them, pounded by
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: the chariot wheels and the horses' hooves, while the well-made
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: chariot and its rails rattled around them as the horses plunged.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: And blameless Cygnus was glad, for he hoped to slay
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: the warlike son of Zeus and his charioteer with the sword,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: and to strip off their splendid armour. But Phoebus Apollo
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: would not listen to his vaunts, for he himself had
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: stirred up mighty Heracles against him. And all the grove
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: and altar of Pagasian Apollo flamed because of the dread
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: god and because of his arms, for his eyes flashed
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: as with fire. What mortal man would have dared to
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: meet him face to face, save Heracles and glorious Aeolus?
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: For great was their strength, and unconquerable were the arms
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: which grew from their shoulders on their strong limbs. Then
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: Heracles spake to his charioteer, strong Aeolus, O hero Aeolus,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: best beloved of all men! Truly Amphitryon sinned deeply against
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: the blessed gods who dwell on Olympus when he came
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: to sweet-crowned Thebes and left Tiryns, the well-built citadel, because
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: he slew Electrion for the sake of his wide-browed oxen.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: Then he came to Creon and long-robed Eneoca, who received
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: him kindly and gave him all fitting things, as is
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: due to suppliants, and honored him in their hearts even more.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: and he lived joyfully with his wife, the neat-ankled daughter
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: of Electrion, and presently, while the years rolled on, we
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: were born, unlike in body as in mind, even your
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: father and I. From him Zeus took away sense, so
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: that he left his home and his parents, and went
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: to do honour to the wicked Eurystheus, unhappy man. Deeply, indeed,
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: did he grieve afterwards in bearing the burden of his
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: own mad folly, but that cannot be taken back. but
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: on me fate laid heavy tasks. Yet come, friend, quickly,
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: take the red-dyed reins of the swift horses, and raise
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: high courage in your heart, and guide the swift chariot
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: and strong fleet-footed horses straight on. Have no secret fear
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: at the noise of man-slaying Ares, who now rages shouting
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: about the holy grove of Phoebus Apollo, the lord who
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: shoots from afar. Surely, strong though he be, he will
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: have enough of war. And blameless Aeolus answered him again,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: Good friend, truly the father of men and gods greatly
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: honors your head in the bull-like earth-shaker also, who keeps
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: Thebes' veil of walls and guards the city. So great
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: and strong is this fellow they bring into your hands,
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: that you may win great glory. But come, put on
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: your arms of war, that with all speed we may
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: bring the car of Ares and our own together and fight.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: for he shall not frighten the dauntless son of Zeus,
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: nor yet the son of Iphiclus. Rather, I think he
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: will flee before the two sons of blameless Alcides, who
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: are near him and eager to raise the war-cry for battle,
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: for this they love better than a feast. So he said,
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: and mighty Heracles was glad in heart and smiled. For
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: the other's words pleased him well, and he answered him
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: with winged words, O hero Aeolus, heaven sprung, now is
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: rough battle hard at hand but as you have shown
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: your skill at other times so now also wheel the
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: great black-maned horse orion about every way and help me
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: as you may be able so he said and put
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: upon his legs greaves of shining bronze the splendid gift
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: of hephaestus Next he fastened about his breast a fine
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: golden breastplate, curiously wrought, which Pallas Athena, the daughter of Zeus,
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: had given him, when first he was about to set
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: out upon his grievous labours. Over his shoulders the fierce
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: warrior put the steel that saves men from doom, and
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: across his breast he slung behind him a hollow quiver.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: Within it were many chilling arrows, dealers of death, which
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: makes speech forgotten. In front they had death, and trickled
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: with tears. Their shafts were smooth and very long, and
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: their butts were covered with feathers of a brown eagle.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: And he took his strong spear, pointed with shining bronze,
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: and on his valiant head set a well-made helm of adamant,
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: cunningly wrought, which fitted closely on the temples, and that
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: guarded the head of godlike Heracles. In his hands he
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: took his shield. all glittering. No one ever broke it
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: with a blow or crushed it, and a wonder it
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: was to see, for its whole orb shimmered with enamel
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: and white ivory and electrum, and it glowed with shining gold,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: and there were zones of cyanus drawn upon it. In
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: the centre was fear, worked and adamant, unspeakable, staring backwards
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: with eyes that glowed with fire. His mouth was full
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: of teeth in a white row, fearful and daunting. And
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: upon his grim brow hovered frightful strife, who erased the
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: throng of men. Pitiless she, for she took away the
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: mind and senses of poor wretches who made war against
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the son of Zeus. Their souls passed beneath the earth
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: and went down into the house of Hades. But their bones,
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: when the skin is rotted about them, crumble away on
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: the dark earth and under parching Sirius. Upon the shield
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: pursuit and flight were wrought, and tumult and panic and slaughter.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: Strife also and uproar were hurrying about, and deadly fate
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: was there holding one man newly wounded and another unwounded,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: and one who was dead she was dragging by the
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: feet through the tumult. She had on her shoulders a
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: garment red with the blood of men, and terribly she
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: glared and gnashed her teeth. And there were heads of snakes,
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: unspeakably frightful, twelve of them. And they used to frighten
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: the tribes of men on earth made war against the
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: son of Zeus. For they would clash their teeth when
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: Amphitryon's son was fighting, and brightly shone these wonderful works.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: And it was as though there were spots upon the
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: frightful snakes. and their backs were dark blue, and their
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: jaws were black. Also there were upon the shield droves
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: of boars and lions who glared at each other, being
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: furious and eager. The rows of them moved on together,
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: and neither side trembled, but both bristled up their manes.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: For already a great lion lay between them and two boars,
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: one on either side, bereft of life, and their dark
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: blood was dripping down upon the ground. they lay dead
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: with necks outstretched beneath the grim lions. And both sides
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: were roused still more to fight, because they were angry,
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: the fierce boars and the bright-eyed lions. And there was
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: the strife of the Lapith spearmen gathered round the prince Ceneus, Andrius,
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: and Perithous, with Hopelius, Xadius, Phalerius, and Prolochus, Mopsus, the
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: son of Ampike of Titericia, a scion of Ares, and
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: theseus the son of geus like the deathless gods these
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: were of silver and had armour of gold upon their
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: bodies and the centaurs were gathered against them on the
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: other side with petreus and asbolus the diviner arctus and
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: euryus and black-haired and the two sons of Puchias, Pyramides
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: and Dryallus. These were of silver, and they had pine-trees
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: of gold in their hands, and they were rushing together
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: as though they were alive, and striking at one another
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: hand to hand with spears and with pines. And on
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: the shield stood the fleet-footed horses of grim Ares made
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: of gold, and deadly Ares the spoil-winner himself. He held
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: a spear in his hands, and was urging on the footmen.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: He was red with blood, as if he were slaying
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: living men, and he stood in his chariot. Beside him
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: stood fear and flight, eager to plunge amidst the fighting men. There, too,
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: was the daughter of Zeus, Tritigenia, who drives the spoil.
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: She was like as if she would array a battle,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: with a spear in her hand and a golden helmet,
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: and the aegis about her shoulders. And she was going
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: towards the awful strife. and there was the holy company
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: of the deathless gods, and in the midst the son
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: of Zeus and Leto played sweetly on a golden lyre.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: There also was the abode of the gods, pure Olympus,
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: and their assembly, and infinite riches were spread around in
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: the gathering of the deathless gods. Also the goddesses, the
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: muses of Pairia, were beginning a song like clear-voiced singers,
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: and on the shield was a harbour with a safe
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: haven from the irresistible sea. made of refined tin wrought
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: in a circle, and it seemed to heave with waves.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: In the middle of it were many dolphins rushing this
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: way and that, fishing, and they seemed to be swimming.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: Two dolphins of silver were spouting and devouring the mute fishes,
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: and beneath them fishes of bronze were trembling. And on
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: the shore sat a fisherman watching. In his hands he
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: held a casting net for fish, and seemed as if
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: about to cast it forth, There too was the son
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: of rich-haired Danae, the horseman Perseus. His feet did not
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: touch the shield, and yet were not far from it,
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: very marvellous to remark, since he was not supported anywhere,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: for so did the famous lame one fashion him of
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: gold with his hands. On his feet he had winged sandals,
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: and his black-sheathed sword was slung across his shoulders by
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: a cross-belt of bronze. He was flying swift as thought.
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: the head of a dreadful monster, the Gorgon, covered the
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: broad of his back, and a bag of silver, a
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: marvel to see, contained it. And from the bag bright
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: tassels of gold hung down. Upon the head of the
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: hero lay the dread cap of Hades, which had the
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: awful gloom of night. Perseus himself, the son of Danae,
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: was at full stretch, like one who hurries and shudders
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: with horror. And after him rushed the Gorgons, unapproachable and unspeakable,
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: longing to seize him. As they trod upon the pale adamant,
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: the shield rang sharp and clear with a loud clanging.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: Two serpents hung down at their girdles with heads curved forward.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: Their tongues were flickering and their teeth gnashing with fury,
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: and their eyes glaring fiercely. and upon the awful heads
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: of the Gorgons great fear was quaking. And beyond these
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: were the men fighting in warlike harness, some defending their
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: own town and parents from destruction, and others eager to
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: sack it. Many lay dead, but the greater number still
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: strove and fought. The women on well-built towers of bronze
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: were crying shrilly and tearing their cheeks like living beings,
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: the work of famous Hephaestus. And the men who were elders,
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: and on whom age had laid hold, were all together
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: outside the gates, and were holding up their hands to
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: the blessed gods, fearing for their own sons. But these
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: again were engaged in battle, and behind them the dusky fates,
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: gnashing their white fangs, lowering, grim, bloody, and unapproachable, struggled
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: for those who were falling, for they all were longing
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: to drink dark blood. So soon as they caught a
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: man overthrown or falling newly wounded, one of them would
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: clasp her great claws about him, and his soul would
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: go down to Hades, to chilly Tartarus. And when they
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: had satisfied their souls with human blood, they would cast
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: that one behind them, and rush back again into the
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: tumult and the fray. Clotho and Lachesis were over them,
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: and Atropos less tall than they, a goddess of no
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: great frame, yet superior to the others and the eldest
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  Speaker 1: of them. And they all made a fierce fight over
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  Speaker 1: one poor wretch, glaring evilly at one another with furious eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and fighting equally with claws and hands. By them stood
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  Speaker 1: darkness of death, mournful and fearful, pale, shriveled, shrunk with hunger,
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  Speaker 1: swollen need. Long nails tipped her hands, and she dribbled
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  Speaker 1: at the nose, and from her cheeks blood dripped down
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. She stood leering hideously, and much dust,
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  Speaker 1: sodden with tears, lay upon her shoulders. Next there was
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  Speaker 1: a city of men with goodly towers, and seven gates
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  Speaker 1: of gold, fitted to the lintels, guarded it. The men
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  Speaker 1: were making merry with festivities and dances. Some were bringing
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  Speaker 1: home a bride to her husband on a well-wheeled car,
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  Speaker 1: while the bridal song swelled high, and the glow of
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  Speaker 1: blazing torches held by handmaidens rolled in waves afar. And
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  Speaker 1: these maidens went before, delighting in the festival. And after
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  Speaker 1: them came frolicsome choirs, the youths singing soft-mouthed to the
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  Speaker 1: sound of shrill pipes, while the echo was shivered around them.
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  Speaker 1: and the girls led on the lovely dance to the
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  Speaker 1: sound of lyres. Then again, on the other side, was
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  Speaker 1: a rout of young men reveling, with flutes playing, some
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  Speaker 1: frolicking with dance and song, and others were going forward
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  Speaker 1: in time with a flute-player and laughing. The whole town
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  Speaker 1: was filled with mirth and dance and festivity. Others again
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  Speaker 1: were mounted on horseback and galloping before the town, and
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  Speaker 1: there were ploughmen breaking up the good soil, clothed in
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  Speaker 1: tunics girt up. Also there was a wide corn land,
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  Speaker 1: and some men were reaping with sharp hooks the stalks,
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  Speaker 1: which bended with the weight of the ears, as if
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  Speaker 1: they were reaping Demeter's grain. Others were binding the sheaves
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  Speaker 1: with bands, and were spreading the threshing floor. And some
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  Speaker 1: held reaping hooks, and were gathering the vintage, while others
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  Speaker 1: were taking from the reapers into baskets white and black
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  Speaker 1: clusters from the long rows of vines, which were heavy
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  Speaker 1: with leaves and tendrils of silver. Others again were gathering
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  Speaker 1: them into baskets. Beside them was a row of vines
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  Speaker 1: in gold, the splendid work of cunning Hephaestus. It had
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  Speaker 1: shivering leaves and stakes of silver, and was laden with
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  Speaker 1: grapes which turned black. And there were men treading out
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  Speaker 1: the grapes, and others drawing off the liquor. Also there
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: were men boxing and wrestling, and huntsmen chasing swift hares
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  Speaker 1: with a leash of sharp-toothed dogs before them. They eager
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  Speaker 1: to catch the hares. and the hares eager to escape.
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  Speaker 1: Next to them were horsemen hard set, and they contended
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  Speaker 1: and laboured for a prize. The charioteers, standing on their
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  Speaker 1: well-woven cars, urged on their swift horses with loose rein.
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: The jointed cars flew along clattering, and the knaves of
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  Speaker 1: the wheels shrieked loudly. So they were engaged in an
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  Speaker 1: unending toil, and the end with victory came never to them,
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  Speaker 1: and the contest was ever unwon. And there was set
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  Speaker 1: out for them within the course a great tripod of gold,
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  Speaker 1: the splendid work of cunning Hephaestus. and round the rim
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  Speaker 1: ocean was flowing, with a full stream as it seemed,
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  Speaker 1: and enclosed all the cunning work of the shield. Over
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  Speaker 1: it swans were soaring and calling loudly, and many others
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  Speaker 1: were swimming upon the surface of the water, and near
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  Speaker 1: them were shoals of fish. A wonderful thing the great
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  Speaker 1: strong shield was to see, even for Zeus the loud thunderer,
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  Speaker 1: by whose will Hephaestus made it, and fitted it with
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  Speaker 1: his hands. This shield the valiant son of Zeus wielded masterly,
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  Speaker 1: and leaped upon his horse chariot like the lightning of
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  Speaker 1: his father Zeus, who holds the Aegis, moving lithely. And
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  Speaker 1: his charioteer, strong Aeolus, standing upon the car, guided the
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  Speaker 1: curved chariot. Then the goddess grey-eyed Athena came near them,
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  Speaker 1: and spoke winged words, encouraging them. Hail, offspring of far-famed Lynceus!
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  Speaker 1: Even now Zeus, who reigns over the blessed gods, gives
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  Speaker 1: you power to slay Cygnus, and to strip off his
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  Speaker 1: splendid armour. Yet I will tell you something besides, mightiest
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  Speaker 1: of the people. When you have robbed Cygnus of sweet life,
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  Speaker 1: then leave him there, and his armour also, and you
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  Speaker 1: yourself watch man-slaying Ares narrowly as he attacks. and wherever
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  Speaker 1: you shall see him uncovered below his cunningly wrought shield,
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  Speaker 1: there wound him with your sharp spear. Then draw back,
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  Speaker 1: for it is not ordained that you should take his
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  Speaker 1: horse or his splendid armour. So said the bright-eyed goddess,
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  Speaker 1: and swiftly got up into the car, with victory and
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  Speaker 1: renown in her hands. Then heaven-nurtured Aeolus called terribly to
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  Speaker 1: the horses, and at his cry they swiftly whirled the
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  Speaker 1: fleet chariot along, raising dust from the plain. For the
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  Speaker 1: goddess bright-eyed Athena put metal into them by shaking her aegis,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth groaned all round them. And they, horse-taming
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  Speaker 1: Cygnus and Ares, insatiable in war, came on together like
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: fire or whirlwind. Then their horses neighed shrilly, face to face,
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  Speaker 1: and the echo was shivered all round them. And mighty
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  Speaker 1: Heracles spoke first, and said to that other, Cygnus, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: why do you set your swift horses at us, men
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  Speaker 1: who are tried in labour and pain? No, guide your
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  Speaker 1: fleet-car aside, and yield and go out of the path.
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  Speaker 1: It is to Trachis I am driving on, to Caix
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  Speaker 1: the king, who is the first in Trachis for power
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  Speaker 1: and for honour. And that you yourself know well, for
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  Speaker 1: you have his daughter, dark-eyed Themisdenoe, to wife. Fool! For
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  Speaker 1: Ares shall not deliver you from the end of death
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  Speaker 1: if we two meet together in battle. Another time ere
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  Speaker 1: this I declare he has made trial of my spear,
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  Speaker 1: when he defended sandy Pylos, and stood against me, fiercely
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  Speaker 1: longing for fight. Thrice was he stricken by my spear
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  Speaker 1: and dashed to earth, and his shield was pierced. But
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  Speaker 1: the fourth time I struck his thigh, laying on with
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: all my strength, and tore deep into his flesh. And
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  Speaker 1: he fell headlong in the dust upon the ground. THROUGH
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  Speaker 1: THE FORCE OF MY SPEAR-THRUST. THEN TRULY HE WOULD HAVE
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  Speaker 1: BEEN DISGRACED AMONG THE DEATHLESS GODS, IF BY MY HANDS
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  Speaker 1: HE HAD LEFT BEHIND HIS BLOODY SPOILS. So said he,
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  Speaker 1: but Cygnus the stout spearman cared not to obey him
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  Speaker 1: and to pull up the horses that drew his chariot.
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  Speaker 1: Then it was that from their well-woven chariots they both
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: leaped straight to the ground, the son of Zeus and
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: the son of the Lord of War. The charioteers drove
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  Speaker 1: nearby their horses with beautiful manes, and the wide earth
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  Speaker 1: rang with the beat of their hooves as they rushed along.
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: As when rocks leap forth from the high peak of
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: a great mountain and fall on one another, and many
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: towering oaks and pines and long-rooted poplars are broken by
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  Speaker 1: them as they whirl swiftly down until they reach the plain,
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  Speaker 1: so did they fall on one another with a great shout.
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  Speaker 1: and all the town of the Myrmidons, and famous Iolcus,
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: and Arni, and Helike, and Graziathia, echoed loudly at the
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: voice of the two. With an awful cry they closed,
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: and wise Zeus thundered loudly, and rained down drops of blood,
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: giving the signal for battle to his dauntless son. As
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: a tusked boar, fearful for a man to see before
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: him in the glens of a mountain, resolves to fight
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  Speaker 1: with the huntsman, and wets his white tusks, turning sideways,
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  Speaker 1: while foam flows all round his mouth as he gnashes,
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  Speaker 1: and his eyes are like glowing fire, and he bristles
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  Speaker 1: the hair on his mane and around his neck. Like him,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Zeus leaped from his horse chariot, and
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: when the dark-winged whirring grasshopper, perched on a green shoot,
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: begins to sing of summer to men, His food and
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: drink is the dainty dew, and all day long from
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: dawn pours forth his voice in the deadliest heat, when
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: Sirius scorches the flesh. Then the beard grows upon the millet,
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  Speaker 1: which men sow in summer. When the crude grapes which
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: Dionysus gave to men, a joy and a sorrow both,
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: begin to colour, in that season they fought, and loud
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  Speaker 1: rose the clamour. as two lions on either side of
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: a slain deer spring at one another in fury and
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: there is a fearful snarling and a clashing also of
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  Speaker 1: teeth like vultures with crooked talons and hooked beak that
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  Speaker 1: fight and scream aloud on a high rock over a
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  Speaker 1: mountain goat or fat wild deer which some active man
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  Speaker 1: has shot with an arrow from the string and himself
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  Speaker 1: has wandered away elsewhere not knowing the place but they
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  Speaker 1: quickly mark it and vehemently do keen battle about it.
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  Speaker 1: Like these, they too rushed upon one another with a shout.
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  Speaker 1: Then Cygnus, eager to kill the son of Almighty Zeus,
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  Speaker 1: struck upon his shield with a brazen spear, but did
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  Speaker 1: not break the bronze, and the gift of the gods
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  Speaker 1: saved his foe. But the son of Amphitryon, mighty Heracles,
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  Speaker 1: with his long spear struck Cygnus violently in the neck
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  Speaker 1: beneath the chin, where it was unguarded between helm and shield.
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: And the deadly spear cut through the two sinews, for
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: the hero's full strength lighted on his foe. and cygnus
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  Speaker 1: fell as an oak falls or a lofty pine that
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  Speaker 1: is stricken by the lurid thunderbolt of zeus even so
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  Speaker 1: he fell and his armour adorned with bronze clashed about
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  Speaker 1: him then the stout-hearted son of zeus let him be
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: and himself watched for the onset of man-slaying Fiercely he stared,
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: like a lion who has come upon a body, and
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: full eagerly rips the hide with his strong claws, and
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: takes away the sweet life with all speed. His dark
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: heart is filled with rage, and his eyes glare fiercely
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: while he tears up the earth with his paws, and
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: lashes his flanks and shoulders with his tail, so that
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: no one dares to face him and go near to
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: give battle. Even so, the son of Amphitryon, unsated of battle,
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: stood eagerly face to face with Ares, nursing courage in
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: his heart. And Ares drew near him with grief in
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: his heart, and they both sprang at one another with
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: a cry, as it is when a rock shoots out
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  Speaker 1: from a great cliff and whirls down with long bounds,
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  Speaker 1: careering eagerly with a roar, and a high crag clashes
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  Speaker 1: with it and keeps it there where they strike together.
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  Speaker 1: with no less clamour did deadly ares the chariot borne
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  Speaker 1: rush shouting at heracles and he quickly received the attack
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: but athene the daughter of ages bearing zeus came to
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  Speaker 1: meet ares wearing the dark ages and she looked at
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  Speaker 1: him with an angry frown and spoke winged words to
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: him' Ares, check your fierce anger and matchless hands, for
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: it is not ordained that you should kill Heracles, the
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: bold-hearted son of Zeus, and strip off his rich armour.
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  Speaker 1: Come then, cease fighting, and do not withstand me.' So
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  Speaker 1: said she, but did not move the courageous spirit of Ares.
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  Speaker 1: But he uttered a great shout, and waving his spears
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  Speaker 1: like fire, he rushed headlong at strong Heracles, longing to
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: kill him, and hurled a brazen spear upon the great shield,
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: for he was furiously angry because of his dead son.
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: But bright-eyed Athena reached out from the chariot and turned
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: aside the force of the spear. Then bitter grief seized Ares,
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: and he drew his keen sword and leaped upon bold-hearted Heracles.
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  Speaker 1: but as he came on the son of amphitryon unsated
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: of fierce battle shrewdly wounded his thigh where it was
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  Speaker 1: exposed under his richly wrought shield and tore deep into
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: his flesh with the spear-thrust and cast him flat upon
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: the ground and panic and dread quickly drove his smooth-wheeled
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: chariot and horses near him, and lifted him from the
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: wide-pathed earth into his richly wrought car, and then straight
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: lashed the horses and came to high Olympus. But the
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: son of Alcmene and glorious Iola stripped the fine armour
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: off Cygnus' shoulders and went. and their swift horses carried
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: them straight to the city of Trachis, and bright-eyed Athena
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: went from there to great Olympus and her father's house.
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: As for Cygnus, Caix buried him and the countless people
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: who lived near the city of the glorious king, in Anthy,
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: and the city of Myrmidons, and famous Iolcus, and Arni,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: and Helici, and many people were gathered doing honour to Caix,
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: the friend of the blessed gods. But Anaris, swelled by
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: a rainstorm, blotted out the grave and memorial of Cygnus.
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: For so Apollo, Leto's son, commanded him, because he used
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: to watch for, and violently despoil, the rich hecatombs that
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: any might bring to Phyto. End of Section 3 End
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: of Works and Days The Theogony and the Shield of
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  Speaker 1: Heracles by Hesiod