APPENDIX
A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
“Works and Days,” Line 346,—Hesiod.
Hesiod, a renowned Greek poet, born at Ascra in Bœotia, and lived in the ninth century (?), B.C. Among his writings are the: “Theogony,” “Works and Days,” “The Shield of Hercules,” etc.
“The Homeric Poems are the earliest literary product of the world which has survived to our day, and they lie at the fountain-head of all the later literature of Europe.”
Homer, the greatest of epic poets, author of the “Iliad” and “Odyssey.” The date of his birth has never been known, but is generally set at the eighth or ninth century B.C.
The fox said the grapes were sour.