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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

Of Pallas the Despoiler. Last came forth
    [180]Chimæra, breathing fire unquenchable:
    A monster grim and huge, and swift and strong:
    Her’s were three heads: a glaring lion’s one:
    One of a goat: a mighty snake’s the third:
    In front the lion threatened, and behind
    The serpent, and the goat was in the midst,
    Exhaling fierce the strength of burning flame.
    But the wing’d Pegasus his rider bore,
    The brave Bellerophon, and laid her dead.
      She, grasp’d by forced embrace of Orthrus, gave
    [181]Depopulating Sphinx, the mortal plague
    Of Cadmian nations: and the lion bare
    Named of Nemæa. Him Jove’s glorious spouse
    To fierceness rear’d: and placed his secret lair
    Among Nemæa’s hills, the pest of men.
    There lurking in his haunts he long ensnared
    The roving tribes of man, and held stern sway
    O’er cavern’d Tretum: o’er the mountain heights
    Of Apesantus, and Nemæa’s wilds:
    Till strong Alcides quell’d his gasping strength.
      Now Ceto, in embrace with Phorcys, bare
    Her youngest born: the dreadful snake, that couch’d
    In the dark earth’s abyss, his wide domain,
    Holds o’er the golden apples wakeful guard.
    [182]Tethys to Ocean brought the rivers forth,
    In whirlpool waters roll’d: Eridanus
    Deep-eddied, and Alpheus, and the Nile:
    Fair-flowing Ister, Strymon, and Meander,
    Phasis and Rhesus: Achelous bright
    With silver-circled tides: Heptaporus,
    And Nessus: Haliacmon and Rhodíus:
    Granícus and the heavenly Simois:
    Æsapus, Hermus, and Sangarius vast:
    Penéus, and Caicus smoothly flowing:
    And Ladon, and Parthenius, and Evenus:
    Ardescus, and Scamander the divine.
      Then bore she a blest race of Naiad nymphs,
    Who with the rivers and the king of day
    O’er the wide earth [183]claim the shorn locks of youth:
    Their portion this and privilege from Jove.
    Admete, Pitho, Doris and Ianthe:
    Urania heavenly-fair: and Clymene:
    Prymno, Electra, and Calliröe:
    Rhodía, Hippo, and Pasithöe:
    Plexaure, Clytie, and Melobosis:
    Idya, Thöe, Xeuxo, Galaxaure:
    And amiable Dione, and Circeis
    Of nature soft, and Polydora fair;
    [184]And Ploto, with the bright dilated eyes:
    Perseis, Ianira, and Acaste:
    Xanthe, the sweet Petræa, saffron-robed
    Telestho, Metis, and Eurynome:
    And Crisie, and Menestho, and Europa:
    Lovely Calypso, Amphiro, Eudora:
    Asia, and Tyche, and Ocyröe:
    And Styx, the chief of oceanic streams.
      The daughters these of Tethys and of Ocean,
    The eldest-born: for more untold remain:
    Three-thousand graceful Oceanides
    [185]Long-stepping tread the earth: or far and wide
    Dispersed, they haunt [186]the glassy depth of lakes,
    A glorious sisterhood of goddess birth.
    As many rivers also, yet untold,
    Rushing with hollow-dashing echoes, rose
    From awful Tethys: but their every name
    Is not for mortal man to memorate,

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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

Of Pallas the Despoiler. Last came forth
    [180]Chimæra, breathing fire unquenchable:
    A monster grim and huge, and swift and strong:
    Her’s were three heads: a glaring lion’s one:
    One of a goat: a mighty snake’s the third:
    In front the lion threatened, and behind
    The serpent, and the goat was in the midst,
    Exhaling fierce the strength of burning flame.
    But the wing’d Pegasus his rider bore,
    The brave Bellerophon, and laid her dead.
      She, grasp’d by forced embrace of Orthrus, gave
    [181]Depopulating Sphinx, the mortal plague
    Of Cadmian nations: and the lion bare
    Named of Nemæa. Him Jove’s glorious spouse
    To fierceness rear’d: and placed his secret lair
    Among Nemæa’s hills, the pest of men.
    There lurking in his haunts he long ensnared
    The roving tribes of man, and held stern sway
    O’er cavern’d Tretum: o’er the mountain heights
    Of Apesantus, and Nemæa’s wilds:
    Till strong Alcides quell’d his gasping strength.
      Now Ceto, in embrace with Phorcys, bare
    Her youngest born: the dreadful snake, that couch’d
    In the dark earth’s abyss, his wide domain,
    Holds o’er the golden apples wakeful guard.
    [182]Tethys to Ocean brought the rivers forth,
    In whirlpool waters roll’d: Eridanus
    Deep-eddied, and Alpheus, and the Nile:
    Fair-flowing Ister, Strymon, and Meander,
    Phasis and Rhesus: Achelous bright
    With silver-circled tides: Heptaporus,
    And Nessus: Haliacmon and Rhodíus:
    Granícus and the heavenly Simois:
    Æsapus, Hermus, and Sangarius vast:
    Penéus, and Caicus smoothly flowing:
    And Ladon, and Parthenius, and Evenus:
    Ardescus, and Scamander the divine.
      Then bore she a blest race of Naiad nymphs,
    Who with the rivers and the king of day
    O’er the wide earth [183]claim the shorn locks of youth:
    Their portion this and privilege from Jove.
    Admete, Pitho, Doris and Ianthe:
    Urania heavenly-fair: and Clymene:
    Prymno, Electra, and Calliröe:
    Rhodía, Hippo, and Pasithöe:
    Plexaure, Clytie, and Melobosis:
    Idya, Thöe, Xeuxo, Galaxaure:
    And amiable Dione, and Circeis
    Of nature soft, and Polydora fair;
    [184]And Ploto, with the bright dilated eyes:
    Perseis, Ianira, and Acaste:
    Xanthe, the sweet Petræa, saffron-robed
    Telestho, Metis, and Eurynome:
    And Crisie, and Menestho, and Europa:
    Lovely Calypso, Amphiro, Eudora:
    Asia, and Tyche, and Ocyröe:
    And Styx, the chief of oceanic streams.
      The daughters these of Tethys and of Ocean,
    The eldest-born: for more untold remain:
    Three-thousand graceful Oceanides
    [185]Long-stepping tread the earth: or far and wide
    Dispersed, they haunt [186]the glassy depth of lakes,
    A glorious sisterhood of goddess birth.
    As many rivers also, yet untold,
    Rushing with hollow-dashing echoes, rose
    From awful Tethys: but their every name
    Is not for mortal man to memorate,

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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