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.

by Hesiod

Set not a twelve-day or a twelve-month boy

[138]On moveless stones; they shall his strength destroy.

Ne’er in the female baths thy limbs immerse;

In its own time the guilt shall bring the curse.

Ne’er let the mystic sacrifices move

Deriding scorn; but dread indignant Jove.

Ne’er with unseemly deeds the fountains stain,

Or limpid rivers flowing to the main.

Do thus: and still with all thy dint of mind

Avoid that evil rumour of mankind;