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μ1389Μῦθοςmyth… dissimulating, to give some advice and instructions -- just as Hesiod obviously did.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2714Κυνοκέφαλοςdogshead… and shameless; the sort of person that Geryoneus was in Hesiod. "Chrysaor gave birth to three-headed Geryoneus." That is, reckless and unscrupulous and rapacious.Matched in translationhighshort
αι86Αἰδώςshame… reference to those whose pleasantness harms them. Homer [says this]. Hesiod [writes]: "shame accompanies a man in need". And [there is] another proverb: "shame [is] in the eyes". Since those who have been mistreated …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4456Αὖονparched[Meaning something] dry. Hesiod [writes]: "to cut the parched from the green." Also in the Epigrams: "and breaking off a chunk of parched bread, the poor-man's sacrifice." And elsewhere: "to some extent he was …Matched in translationhighshort
α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… is stored away as a delight for the king." And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament"; but Pindar uses this term for the decoration on a tomb, and Euripides uses it for the adornments …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1177ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, Dionysius… one book, Heavenly Phenomena, and in prose, a Commentary on Hesiod; Description of the Inhabited World in epic verse. I also found these things under the Dionysios who wrote the Gemstones; so which one …Matched in translationhighshort
ε2665Ἐπιτέλλεταιcommands… somewhere, but all extant instances of e)pite/lletai (which begin with Hesiod, Works and Days 567) appear to stem from e)pite/llw (B), with the solitary exception of a semi-restored instance in a magical papyrus (K. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3801ΕὐφορίωνEuphorion, Euphorio… some say, in Antioch. Here are his books of epic: Hesiod; Mopsopia or Orderless Tales, [so called] for it contains miscellaneous stories; and 'Mopsopia' because Attica was previously called Mopsopia after Mopsopia the daughter …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ1373Μυδαλέαςsodden… singular masculine, appears in Archilochus fr. 249, and elsewhere, including Hesiod, Works and Days 556. For the gloss see Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (113.34) and Photius mu586; also Hesychius mu1776, who also includes a version …Matched in noteshighshort
α425ἈδάμAdam… Hence Orpheus and Homer and that portrayer of improper begettings, Hesiod. Hence the reputation of Thales and the glorious Pythagoras and Socrates the wise and Plato, the much-ballyhooed pride of the Academy of the …Matched in translationhighlong