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

The care is greater, greater is the gain.

Do thus: if riches be thy soul’s desire,

By toils on toils to this thy hope aspire.

II.

When, Atlas-born, the Pleiad stars [78]arise

Before the sun above the dawning skies,

’Tis time to reap; and when they sink below

The morn-illumined west, [79]’tis time to sow.

Know too they set, immerged into the sun,

While forty days entire their circle run;