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

As demi-gods o’er earth’s wide regions known.

Yet these dread battle hurried to their end:

Some where the seven-fold gates of Thebes ascend:

The Cadmian realm: where they with fatal might

Strove for the flocks of Œdipus in fight.

Some war in navies led [47]to Troy’s far shore;

O’er the great space of sea their course they bore;

For sake of Helen with the beauteous hair:

And death for Helen’ sake o’erwhelm’d them there.

Them on earth’s utmost verge the god assign’d