Hesiod Ἡσίοδος
farmer · poet · Boeotia, ancient Greece · c. 700 BC
A farmer poet of Boeotia. He wrote Works and Days to reason with his brother Perses, who had grabbed the inheritance and still came asking for more.
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c. 700 BC
I wish I were not living among the men of the fifth age, but had either died before or been born after. For now it is truly a race of iron.
μηκέτʼ ἔπειτʼ ὤφελλον ἐγὼ πέμπτοισι μετεῖναι
ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλʼ ἢ πρόσθε θανεῖν ἢ ἔπειτα γενέσθαι.
νῦν γὰρ δὴ γένος ἐστὶ σιδήρεονWorks and Days, lines 174–176
c. 700 BC · To his brother Perses
Do not put things off till tomorrow and the day after. A man who works carelessly does not fill his barn, nor does one who puts things off. Care is what makes work prosper.
μηδʼ ἀναβάλλεσθαι ἔς τʼ αὔριον ἔς τε ἔνηφιν·
οὐ γὰρ ἐτωσιοεργὸς ἀνὴρ πίμπλησι καλιὴν
οὐδʼ ἀναβαλλόμενος· μελέτη δὲ τὸ ἔργον ὀφέλλειWorks and Days, lines 410–412
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