Hesiod

Hesiod (c. 8th century BCE)

“Little business has a man with disputes and debates who has not food for the year laid up at home in its ripeness, produce of the earth, Demeter’s grain.”

  • From Hesiod’s Works and Days (approximately line 29), translated by M. L. West (Oxford World Classics, 1988, 1999, 2008).

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