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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules: Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.Hesiod

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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules: Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

Name: The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules: Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.
Author: Hesiod

Hesiod

Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Poetry; Hesiod -- Translations into English

Then the Destinies
    Arose, and Fates in vengeance pitiless:
    Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos:
    Who at the birth of men dispense the lot
    Of good and evil. They of men and gods
    The crimes pursue, nor ever pause from wrath
    Tremendous, till destructive on the head
    Of him that sins the retribution fall.
      Then teem’d pernicious Night with Nemesis,
    The scourge of mortal men: again she bare
    Fraud and lascivious Love: slow-wasting Age,
    And still-persisting Strife. From hateful Strife
    Came sore Affliction and Oblivion drear:
    Famine and weeping Sorrows: Combats, Wars,
    And Slaughters, and all Homicides: and Brawls,
    And Bickerings, and deluding Lies: with them
    Perverted Law and galling Injury,
    Inseparable mates: and the dread Oath;
    A mighty bane to him of earth-born men
    Who wilful swears, and perjured is forsworn.
      The Sea with Earth embracing, Nereus rose,
    [165]Eldest of all his race: unerring seer,
    And true: with filial veneration named
    Ancient of Years: for mild and blameless he:
    Remembering still the right; still merciful
    As just in counsels. [166]Then rose Thaumas vast,
    [167]Phorcys the mighty, Ceto fair of cheek,
    And stern Eurybia, of an iron soul.
      From Nereus and the fair-hair’d Doris, nymph
    Of ocean’s perfect stream, the lovely race
    Of goddess Nereids rose to light, whose haunt
    Is midst the waters of the sterile main:
    Eucrate, Proto, Thetis, Amphitrite,
    Love-breathing Thália, Sao, and Eudora,
    And Spio, skimming with light feet the wave:
    Galene, Glauce, and Cymothöe:
    Agave, and the graceful Melita:
    [168]Rose-arm’d Eunice, and Eulimene:
    Pasithea, Doto, Erato, Pherusa,
    Nesæa, Cranto, and Dynamene:
    Protomedía, Doris, and Actæa:
    And Panope, and Galatæa fair:
    Rose-arm’d Hipponöe: soft Hippothöe:
    Cymodoce who calms, at once, the waves
    Of the dark sea, and blasts of heaven-breathed winds:
    With whom Cymatolége, and the nymph
    Of beauteous ankles Amphitrite glide:
    Cymo, Eïone, Liagore,
    And Halimede, with her sea-green wreath:
    Pontoporïa, and Polynome;
    Evagore, and blithe Glauconome:
    Laomedía, and Evarne blest
    With gracious nature and with faultless form:
    Lysianassa, and Autonome,
    And Psamathe, with shape of comeliness:
    Divine Menippe, Neso, and Themistho:
    And Pronöe, and Eupompe, and Nemertes:
    Full of her deathless sire’s prophetic soul.
    These sprang from blameless Nereus: [169]Nereid nymphs:
    Who midst the waters ply their blameless tasks.
      Electra, nymph of the deep-flowing ocean,
    Embraced with Thaumas: rapid Iris thence
    Rose, and Aëllo and Ocypetes,
    [170]The sister-harpies, fair with streaming locks:
    Who track the breezy winds and flights of birds,
    On wings of swiftness hovering nigh the heaven.
      Then Ceto, fair of cheek, to Phorcys bore
    [171]The Graiæ; from their birth-hour gray: and hence

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General

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules: Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

Hesiod

Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Poetry; Hesiod -- Translations into English

Then the Destinies
    Arose, and Fates in vengeance pitiless:
    Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos:
    Who at the birth of men dispense the lot
    Of good and evil. They of men and gods
    The crimes pursue, nor ever pause from wrath
    Tremendous, till destructive on the head
    Of him that sins the retribution fall.
      Then teem’d pernicious Night with Nemesis,
    The scourge of mortal men: again she bare
    Fraud and lascivious Love: slow-wasting Age,
    And still-persisting Strife. From hateful Strife
    Came sore Affliction and Oblivion drear:
    Famine and weeping Sorrows: Combats, Wars,
    And Slaughters, and all Homicides: and Brawls,
    And Bickerings, and deluding Lies: with them
    Perverted Law and galling Injury,
    Inseparable mates: and the dread Oath;
    A mighty bane to him of earth-born men
    Who wilful swears, and perjured is forsworn.
      The Sea with Earth embracing, Nereus rose,
    [165]Eldest of all his race: unerring seer,
    And true: with filial veneration named
    Ancient of Years: for mild and blameless he:
    Remembering still the right; still merciful
    As just in counsels. [166]Then rose Thaumas vast,
    [167]Phorcys the mighty, Ceto fair of cheek,
    And stern Eurybia, of an iron soul.
      From Nereus and the fair-hair’d Doris, nymph
    Of ocean’s perfect stream, the lovely race
    Of goddess Nereids rose to light, whose haunt
    Is midst the waters of the sterile main:
    Eucrate, Proto, Thetis, Amphitrite,
    Love-breathing Thália, Sao, and Eudora,
    And Spio, skimming with light feet the wave:
    Galene, Glauce, and Cymothöe:
    Agave, and the graceful Melita:
    [168]Rose-arm’d Eunice, and Eulimene:
    Pasithea, Doto, Erato, Pherusa,
    Nesæa, Cranto, and Dynamene:
    Protomedía, Doris, and Actæa:
    And Panope, and Galatæa fair:
    Rose-arm’d Hipponöe: soft Hippothöe:
    Cymodoce who calms, at once, the waves
    Of the dark sea, and blasts of heaven-breathed winds:
    With whom Cymatolége, and the nymph
    Of beauteous ankles Amphitrite glide:
    Cymo, Eïone, Liagore,
    And Halimede, with her sea-green wreath:
    Pontoporïa, and Polynome;
    Evagore, and blithe Glauconome:
    Laomedía, and Evarne blest
    With gracious nature and with faultless form:
    Lysianassa, and Autonome,
    And Psamathe, with shape of comeliness:
    Divine Menippe, Neso, and Themistho:
    And Pronöe, and Eupompe, and Nemertes:
    Full of her deathless sire’s prophetic soul.
    These sprang from blameless Nereus: [169]Nereid nymphs:
    Who midst the waters ply their blameless tasks.
      Electra, nymph of the deep-flowing ocean,
    Embraced with Thaumas: rapid Iris thence
    Rose, and Aëllo and Ocypetes,
    [170]The sister-harpies, fair with streaming locks:
    Who track the breezy winds and flights of birds,
    On wings of swiftness hovering nigh the heaven.
      Then Ceto, fair of cheek, to Phorcys bore
    [171]The Graiæ; from their birth-hour gray: and hence

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules: Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules: Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

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