The Poems And Fragments Done Into English Prose With Introd. And Appendices

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Hesiod
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Hapless Kleonikos thou didst task to go unto bright Thasos, a merchant from hollow Syria ; a merchant, O Kleonikos, and seafaring at the very setting of Pleias with Pleias didst thou set.* Two epochs are given as suitable for sailing. The first is a period of about fifty days from the Summer Solsdce onward — say July-August : * for fifty days after the turn- ing of the sun, when summer (i.e. harvest, Bfpos)^ the weary season, hath come to an end, sailing is seasonable for men.' One needs to rem...ember the narionality of the writer to appreciate the humour of Professor Bury's translation of these words in his History of Greece, p. 109, * For fifty days after the solstice till the end of harvest is the time for sailing ' I Seeing that harvest was over before The Farmer^ s Tear in Hesiod 147 the solstice (as indeed Hesiod says, cV rf\osiX$6pro9B€p€09)f it is hard to find a period of fifty days between the solstice and the end of harvest I llus period is terminated by the rising (of course, * heli- acal ') of Arkturos, which marked the commencement of vintaging: 'And haste with all speed to return home again ; neither await the new wine and autumn rain, and winter's onset and the dread blasts of the South Wind, which, coming with the heavy autumn rain of Zeus, stirreth the sea and maketh the deep perilous ' (XT.

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