Fragment #23—Bacchylides, v. 191-3: Thus spake the Boeotian, even Hesiod [2302], servant of the sweet Muses: ‘whomsoever the immortals honour, the good report of mortals also followeth him.’
DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS
Fragment #1—Galen, de plac. Hipp. et Plat. i. 266: ‘And then it was Zeus took away sense from the heart of Athamas.’
Fragment #2—Scholiast on Homer, Od. vii. 104: ‘They grind the yellow grain at the mill.’
Fragment #3—Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. ii. 1: ‘Then first in Delos did I and Homer, singers both, raise our strain—stitching song in new hymns—Phoebus Apollo with the golden sword, whom Leto bare.’
Fragment #4—Julian, Misopogon, p. 369: ‘But starvation on a handful is a cruel thing.’
Fragment #5—Servius on Vergil, Aen. iv. 484: Hesiod says that these Hesperides........daughters of Night, guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean: ‘Aegle and Erythea and ox-eyed Hesperethusa.’ [2401]
Fragment #6—Plato, Republic, iii. 390 E: ‘Gifts move the gods, gifts move worshipful princes.’
Fragment #7—[2402] Clement of Alexandria, Strom. v. p. 256: ‘On the seventh day again the bright light of the sun....’
Fragment #8—Apollonius, Lex. Hom.: ‘He brought pure water and mixed it with Ocean’s streams.’