Monday, July 10, 2023
Early to Rise
Hesiod, Works and Days 578-581 (tr. M.L. West):
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For the morning accounts for a third of the work:The same (tr. A.E. Stallings):
morning forwards the journey, forwards the job,
morning, whose appearance puts many a man
on the road, and sets the yoke on many an ox.
ἠὼς γὰρ ἔργοιο τρίτην ἀπομείρεται αἶσαν,
ἠώς τοι προφέρει μὲν ὁδοῦ, προφέρει δὲ καὶ ἔργου,
ἠώς, ἥτε φανεῖσα πολέας ἐπέβησε κελεύθου 580
ἀνθρώπους πολλοῖσί τ᾽ ἐπὶ ζυγὰ βουσὶ τίθησιν.
One-third of work is Dawn's own share to ask,West ad loc.:
Dawn lights the path, Dawn offers you the task,
Dawn shows herself, and sets men on their way;
Dawn yokes the oxen at the break of day.
