Who but you yourself could tell us this, Hesiod? As the gods are “givers of goods”,
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so it is proper for you poets, their friends and disciples, to expound in all sincerity the knowledge you have and free us from our perplexity.
Hesiod. Lucian of Samosata. Kenneth Kilburn (Translator). Medford, MA. Perseus 5.0.
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