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

Of good and evil. They of men and gods

The crimes pursue, nor ever pause from wrath

Tremendous, till destructive on the head

Of him that sins the retribution fall.

Then teem’d pernicious Night with Nemesis,

The scourge of mortal men: again she bare

Fraud and lascivious Love: slow-wasting Age,

And still-persisting Strife. From hateful Strife

Came sore Affliction and Oblivion drear:

Famine and weeping Sorrows: Combats, Wars,