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

Stern he retains: e’en [221]to immortal gods

A foe. The hollow-sounding palaces

Of Pluto strong the subterranean god,

[222]And stern Prosérpina, there full in front

Ascend: a grisly dog, implacable,

Holds watch before the gates: a stratagem

Is his, malicious: them who enter there,

With tail and bended ears he fawning soothes:

But suffers not that they with backward step

Repass: whoe’er would issue from the gates