A conversation with Hesiod (6)

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Well, if I have to come to grips with the charge, and make a clear-cut defence, read my Works and Days, my man. You will see how much, like a real seer and prophet, I foretold in that poem, predicting the outcome of right and timely action and the penalties of neglect. Remember my

“you will carry it in a basket, and few there’ll be

to admire” [*]

and again the blessings that follow right farming—this should be thought a prophecy most useful for living.

v.6.p.235

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