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

Earth-grasping Neptune, shaker of earth’s shores:

Majestic Themis and Dione fair:

[145]And Venus twinkling bland her tremulous lids:

Hebe, her brows with golden fillet bound:

Morn, the vast Sun, and the resplendent Moon:

Latona and Japetus: and him

Of crooked wisdom, Saturn: and the Earth:

And the huge Ocean, and the sable Night

And all the sacred race of deities

Existing ever. They to Hesiod erst