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

Aurora to Tithonus Memnon bare,

The brazen-helm’d, the Æthiopian king,

And king Emathion: and to Cephalus

Bare she a son illustrious, Phäethon,

Gallantly brave, a mortal like to gods:

Whom, while a youth, e’en in the tender flower

Of glorious prime, a boy, and vers’d alone

In what a boy may know, love’s amorous queen

Snatch’d with swift rape away: in her blest fane

Appointing him her nightly-serving priest;