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

Societies, who fill th’ Olympian courts.

So great an oath the deities of heaven

Decreed the water of eternal Styx,

The ancient stream; that sweeps with wandering waves

A rugged region: where of dusky Earth,

And darksome Tartarus, and Ocean waste,

And starry Heaven, the source and boundary

Successive rise and end: a dreary wild

And ghastly: e’en by deities abhorr’d.

There gates resplendent rise; the threshold brass;