Perseus Under Philologic: Hes. Op. 311

HOME ABOUT THIS RESOURCE PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY AT TUFTS ARTFL PROJECT CLASSICS AT CHICAGO Greek Texts & Translations search lost and confused? report a problem Hesiod, Works and Days (English) (XML Header) [genre: poetry; hexameter] [word count] [lemma count] [Hes. Op.]. >Hes. Op. 405 275 listen now to right, ceasing altogether to think of violence. For the son of Cronos has ordained this law for men, that fishes and beasts and winged fowls should devour one another, for right is not in them; but to mankind he gave right which proves 280 far the best. For whoever knows the right and is ready to speak it, far-seeing Zeus gives him prosperity; but whoever deliberately lies in his witness and foreswears himself, and so hurts Justice and sins beyond repair, that man's generation is left obscure thereafter. 285 But the generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward. To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be g

HOME ABOUT THIS RESOURCE PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY AT TUFTS ARTFL PROJECT CLASSICS AT CHICAGO Greek Texts & Translations search lost and confused? report a problem Hesiod, Works and Days (English) (XML Header) [genre: poetry; hexameter] [word count] [lemma count] [Hes. Op.]. >Hes. Op. 405 275 listen now to right, ceasing altogether to think of violence. For the son of Cronos has ordained this law for men, that fishes and beasts and winged fowls should devour one another, for right is not in them; but to mankind he gave right which proves 280 far the best. For whoever knows the right and is ready