The Theogony

Hesiodos: The Theogony Interlinear

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TH.1 μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ' ἀείδειν,

TH.1 Let us begin to sing of the Muses of Helicon first who

TH.2 αἵ θ' Ἑλικῶνος ἔχουσιν ὄρος μέγα τε ζάθεόν τε,

TH.2 Have and inhabit their shrine on that large and numinous mountain.

TH.3 καί τε περὶ κρήνην ἰοειδέα πόσσ' ἁπαλοῖσιν

TH.3 Furthermore round some spring that is violet-coloured on tender

TH.4 ὀρχεῦνται καὶ βωμὸν ἐρισθενέος Κρονίωνος:

TH.4 Feet they are dancing or round the altar of Zeus the almighty,

TH.5 καί τε λοεσσάμεναι τέρενα χρόα Περμησσοῖο

TH.5 Bathing their delicate skin in the spring of Permessus or in the

TH.6 ἢ Ἵππου κρήνης ἢ Ὀλμειοῦ ζαθέοιο

TH.6 Spring of the horse or of sacred Olmeius, they often create their

TH.7 ἀκροτάτῳ Ἑλικῶνι χοροὺς ἐνεποιήσαντο,

TH.7 Lovely and beautiful dances on top of Mt Helicon's summit.

TH.8 καλοὺς ἱμερόεντας, ἐπερρώσαντο δὲ ποσσίν.

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TH.9 ἔνθεν ἀπορνύμεναι κεκαλυμμέναι ἠέρι πολλῷ

TH.9 Thence they arise and they go forth wholly enveloped in darkness,

TH.10 ἐννύχιαι στεῖχον περικαλλέα ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι,

TH.10 Walking abroad in the night, projecting their beautiful voices,

TH.11 ὑμνεῦσαι Δία τ' αἰγίοχον καὶ πότνιαν Ἥρην

TH.11 Singing of Zeus who sustains the Aegis and reverend Hera,

TH.12 Ἀργείην, χρυσέοισι πεδίλοις ἐμβεβαυῖαν,

TH.12 Lady of Argos;--wherever she wanders her sandals are golden--

TH.13 κούρην τ' αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς γλαυκῶπιν Ἀθήνην

TH.13 Hymning the daughter of Zeus who carries the aegis, Athena

TH.14 Φοῖβόν τ' Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν

TH.14 With grey eyes, and Apollo and Artemis lover of arrows,

TH.15 ἠδὲ Ποσειδάωνα γαιήοχον ἐννοσίγαιον

TH.15 Also Poseidon who holds the earth and occasionally shakes it,

TH.16 καὶ Θέμιν αἰδοίην ἑλικοβλέφαρόν τ' Ἀφροδίτην

TH.16 Reverend Themis and coy Aphrodite who glances askance, too,

TH.17 Ἥβην τε χρυσοστέφανον καλήν τε Διώνην

TH.17 Beautiful Hebe whose garland is gold and lovely Dione,

TH.19 Λητώ τ' Ἰαπετόν τε ἰδὲ Κρόνον ἀγκυλομήτην

TH.18 Leto, Iapetus, also Kronos whose counsel is crooked,

TH.18 Ἠῶ τ' Ἠέλιόν τε μέγαν λαμπράν τε Σελήνην

TH.19 Dawn, the magnificent Sun, and the Moon with her radiant visage,

TH.20 Γαῖάν τ' Ὠκεανόν τε μέγαν καὶ Νύκτα μέλαιναν

TH.20 Earth and the might of the Ocean, and Night who personifies blackness,

TH.21 ἄλλων τ' ἀθανάτων ἱερὸν γένος αἰὲν ἐόντων.

TH.21 All of the sacred race of immortals enduring forever.

TH.22 αἵ νύ ποθ' Ἡσίοδον καλὴν ἐδίδαξαν ἀοιδήν,

TH.22 Such are the goddesses who taught Hesiod beautiful songs once

TH.23 ἄρνας ποιμαίνονθ' Ἑλικῶνος ὕπο ζαθέοιο.

TH.23 While he was shepherding lambs in the shadow of Helicon's holy

TH.24 τόνδε δέ με πρώτιστα θεαὶ πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπον,

TH.24 Mountain, and these were the very first words they uttered to me, those

TH.25 Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες, κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο:

TH.25 Nymphs of Olympus, the daughters of Zeus who carries the aegis.

TH.26 "ποιμένες ἄγραυλοι, κάκ' ἐλέγχεα, γαστέρες οἶον,

TH.26 "Wilderness shepherds, ignoble excuses for men, merely bellies.

TH.27 ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα,

TH.27 We are accustomed to tell many lies that resemble the facts, and

TH.28 ἴδμεν δ' εὖτ' ἐθέλωμεν ἀληθέα γηρύσασθαι."

TH.28 We are accustomed to speak, when we wish to, the literal truth, too."

TH.29 ὣς ἔφασαν κοῦραι μεγάλου Διὸς ἀρτιέπειαι,

TH.29 So the articulate daughters of Zeus the magnificent spoke, and

TH.30 καί μοι σκῆπτρον ἔδον δάφνης ἐριθηλέος ὄζον

TH.30 Gave me a staff, a sprout they had plucked of the vigorous laurel:

TH.31 δρέψασαι, θηητόν: ἐνέπνευσαν δέ μοι αὐδὴν

TH.31 It was a marvellous thing. They inspired me with vocal, prophetic

TH.32 θέσπιν, ἵνα κλείοιμι τά τ' ἐσσόμενα πρό τ' ἐόντα,

TH.32 Song, to enunciate matters to come and others that have been.

TH.33 καί μ' ἐκέλονθ' ὑμνεῖν μακάρων γένος αἰὲν ἐόντων,

TH.33 Me they commanded to sing of the race of the blessed immortals,

TH.34 σφᾶς δ' αὐτὰς πρῶτόν τε καὶ ὕστατον αἰὲν ἀείδειν.

TH.34 Hymning themselves at beginning and end of every poem.

TH.35 ἀλλὰ τίη μοι ταῦτα περὶ δρῦν ἢ περὶ πέτρην;

TH.35 What is, however, to me all that stuff about oaktrees and stones?

TH.36 τύνη, Μουσάων ἀρχώμεθα, ταὶ Διῒ πατρὶ

TH.36 You, then, let us begin with the Muses who up on Olympus

TH.37 ὑμνεῦσαι τέρπουσι μέγαν νόον ἐντὸς Ὀλύμπου,

TH.37 Pleasure with music the mighty mind of our heavenly father,

TH.38 εἴρουσαι τά τ' ἐόντα τά τ' ἐσσόμενα πρό τ' ἐόντα,

TH.38 Telling of things as they are, as they will be and were in aforetime.,

TH.39 φωνῇ ὁμηρεῦσαι, τῶν δ' ἀκάματος ῥέει αὐδὴ

TH.39 Blending their voices which flow inexhaustibly sweet from their open

TH.40 ἐκ στομάτων ἡδεῖα: γελᾷ δέ τε δώματα πατρὸς

TH.40 Mouths; then the home of their father, loud-thundering Zeus, is delighted,

TH.41 Ζηνὸς ἐριγδούποιο θεᾶν ὀπὶ λειριοέσσῃ

TH.41 Glad at the delicate, wide-spread tone of the Muses, the peaks of

TH.42 σκιδναμένῃ, ἠχεῖ δὲ κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου

TH.42 Snowy Olympus and all the abodes of the deathless reecho.

TH.43 δώματά τ' ἀθανάτων: αἱ δ' ἄμβροτον ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι

TH.43 Raising aloft their ambrosial voices in song they extol the

TH.44 θεῶν γένος αἰδοῖον πρῶτον κλείουσιν ἀοιδῇ

TH.44 Worshipful race of the gods first, whom at the very beginning

TH.45 ἐξ ἀρχῆς, οὓς Γαῖα καὶ Οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ἔτικτεν,

TH.45 Earth and extensive heaven gave birth to: the gods were their children,

TH.46 οἵ τ' ἐκ τῶν ἐγένοντο, θεοὶ δωτῆρες ἐάων:

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TH.47 δεύτερον αὖτε Ζῆνα θεῶν πατέρ' ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν,

TH.47 Givers of good things. Second they sing about almighty Zeus the

TH.48 [ἀρχόμεναί θ' ὑμνεῦσι θεαὶ λήγουσαί τ' ἀοιδῆς,]

TH.48 Father of gods and of men, thus beginning and ending their song, for

TH.49 ὅσσον φέρτατός ἐστι θεῶν κάρτει τε μέγιστος:

TH.49 Zeus is the highest and best of the gods and the greatest in power.

TH.50 αὖτις δ' ἀνθρώπων τε γένος κρατερῶν τε Γιγάντων

TH.50 Next the Olympian Muses, the daughters of Zeus with the aegis,

TH.51 ὑμνεῦσαι τέρπουσι Διὸς νόον ἐντὸς Ὀλύμπου

TH.51 Pleasure with music the mind of Zeus who inhabits Olympus,

TH.52 Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες, κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο.

TH.52 Singing a song of the races of men and of powerful giants.

TH.53 τὰς ἐν Πιερίῃ Κρονίδῃ τέκε πατρὶ μιγεῖσα

TH.53 Them in Pieria Memory, queen of the hills of Eleuther,

TH.54 Μνημοσύνη, γουνοῖσιν Ἐλευθῆρος μεδέουσα,

TH.54 After she lay with the father of gods, the descendant of Cronos,

TH.55 λησμοσύνην τε κακῶν ἄμπαυμά τε μερμηράων.

TH.55 Bore as a respite from woe and a means of forgetting all sorrow.

TH.56 ἐννέα γάρ οἱ νύκτας ἐμίσγετο μητίετα Ζεὺς

TH.56 Zeus the astute great counsellor slept with Mnemoyne nine nights,

TH.57 νόσφιν ἀπ' ἀθανάτων ἱερὸν λέχος εἰσαναβαίνων:

TH.57 Going up into her blest bed far from the other immortals.

TH.58 ἀλλ' ὅτε δή ῥ' ἐνιαυτὸς ἔην, περὶ δ' ἔτραπον ὧραι

TH.58 Then when a year had passed and the round of the seasons was perfect,

TH.59 μηνῶν φθινόντων, περὶ δ' ἤματα πόλλ' ἐτελέσθη,

TH.59 After the months dwindled down and the number of days was accomplished,

TH.60 ἡ δ' ἔτεκ' ἐννέα κούρας, ὁμόφρονας, ᾗσιν ἀοιδὴ

TH.60 Memory bore nine daughters whose hearts were intent upon music;

TH.61 μέμβλεται ἐν στήθεσσιν, ἀκηδέα θυμὸν ἐχούσαις,

TH.61 All were unanimous also, their spirits remarkably carefree.

TH.62 τυτθὸν ἀπ' ἀκροτάτης κορυφῆς νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου:

TH.62 At birth little removed from the summit of snowy Olympus:

TH.63 ἔνθά σφιν λιπαροί τε χοροὶ καὶ δώματα καλά,

TH.63 There were their glistening dancing-floors next to their beautiful houses.

TH.64 πὰρ δ' αὐτῇς Χάριτές τε καὶ Ἵμερος οἰκί' ἔχουσιν

TH.64 Near them the Graces as well as Desire had homes in delightful

TH.65 ἐν θαλίῃς: ἐρατὴν δὲ διὰ στόμα ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι

TH.65 Comfort. The Muses, projecting their lovely voices from their mouths

TH.66 μέλπονται, πάντων τε νόμους καὶ ἤθεα κεδνὰ

TH.66 Sing of the customs and noble characters of the immortals.

TH.67 ἀθανάτων κλείουσιν, ἐπήρατον ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι.

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TH.68 αἳ τότ' ἴσαν πρὸς Ὄλυμπον, ἀγαλλόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ,

TH.68 They as they went to Olympus rejoiced in their beautiful voices

TH.69 ἀμβροσίῃ μολπῇ: περὶ δ' ἴαχε γαῖα μέλαινα

TH.69 And their ambrosial melody. Around them the dark earth rang out

TH.70 ὑμνεύσαις, ἐρατὸς δὲ ποδῶν ὕπο δοῦπος ὀρώρει

TH.70 Loudly in time to their hymns. Sweet noises arose from their footsteps

TH.71 νισομένων πατέρ' εἰς ὅν: ὁ δ' οὐρανῷ ἐμβασιλεύει,

TH.71 As they progressed to their father who ruled as a monarch in heaven,

TH.72 αὐτὸς ἔχων βροντὴν ἠδ' αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνόν,

TH.72 Holding the terrible thunderbolt, grasping the glittering lightning.

TH.73 κάρτει νικήσας πατέρα Κρόνον: εὖ δὲ ἕκαστα

TH.73 After he conquered with violence Cronos his father, he parceled

TH.74 ἀθανάτοις διέταξε νόμους καὶ ἐπέφραδε τιμάς.

TH.74 Out each his role to the gods and apportioned their duties and honours.

TH.75 ταῦτ' ἄρα Μοῦσαι ἄειδον Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαι,

TH.75 This was the song of the Muses who make their homes on Olympus,

TH.76 ἐννέα θυγατέρες μεγάλου Διὸς ἐκγεγαυῖαι,

TH.76 Nine of them daughters engendered of almighty Zeus. And their names were

TH.77 Κλειώ τ' Εὐτέρπη τε Θάλειά τε Μελπομένη τε

TH.77 Cleio, Euterpe and Thalia, also Melpomene and her

TH.78 Τερψιχόρη τ' Ἐρατώ τε Πολύμνιά τ' Οὐρανίη τε

TH.78 Sister Terpsichore, lovely Erato, Polymnia, likewise

TH.79 Καλλιόπη θ': ἡ δὲ προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων.

TH.79 Blessed Urania, also Calliope, first of the Muses.

TH.80 ἡ γὰρ καὶ βασιλεῦσιν ἅμ' αἰδοίοισιν ὀπηδεῖ.

TH.80 She is a hand-maid waiting on reverend princes. If any

TH.81 ὅντινα τιμήσουσι Διὸς κοῦραι μεγάλοιο

TH.81 One of these heavenly-nurtured princes the daughters of mighty

TH.82 γεινόμενόν τε ἴδωσι διοτρεφέων βασιλήων,

TH.82 Zeus should be pleased to regard, on beholding him when he is new-born;

TH.83 τῷ μὲν ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ γλυκερὴν χείουσιν ἐέρσην,

TH.83 Over the tongue of that child they distill sweet liquor from heaven,

TH.84 τοῦ δ' ἔπε' ἐκ στόματος ῥεῖ μείλιχα: οἱ δέ νυ λαοὶ

TH.84 Out of his mouth flow honey-sweet words. And then all of the people

TH.85 πάντες ἐς αὐτὸν ὁρῶσι διακρίνοντα θέμιστας

TH.85 Look to the same who decides between differing sides with unbending

TH.86 ἰθείῃσι δίκῃσιν: ὁ δ' ἀσφαλέως ἀγορεύων

TH.86 Righteousness; speaking decisively, firmly he can in a little

TH.87 αἶψά τι καὶ μέγα νεῖκος ἐπισταμένως κατέπαυσε:

TH.87 While understandingly put an end even to serious quarrels.

TH.88 τοὔνεκα γὰρ βασιλῆες ἐχέφρονες, οὕνεκα λαοῖς

TH.88 This is the function of sensible kings, that whenever the people

TH.89 βλαπτομένοις ἀγορῆφι μετάτροπα ἔργα τελεῦσι

TH.89 Err in assembly, the kings set right the affairs of the people

TH.90 ῥηϊδίως, μαλακοῖσι παραιφάμενοι ἐπέεσσιν:

TH.90 Easily, talking them over with soft words, gentle persuasion.

TH.91 ἐρχόμενον δ' ἀν' ἀγῶνα θεὸν ὣς ἱλάσκονται

TH.91 Making his way through the throng he is greeted and cheered like a god with

TH.92 αἰδοῖ μειλιχίῃ, μετὰ δὲ πρέπει ἀγρομένοισι.

TH.92 Honeyed respect, and he stands out always when men are assembled.

TH.93 τοίη Μουσάων ἱερὴ δόσις ἀνθρώποισιν.

TH.93 Such is the holy and glorious gift of the muses to mankind,

TH.94 ἐκ γάρ τοι Μουσέων καὶ ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνος

TH.94 For it is thanks to the muses and to far-darting Apollo

TH.95 ἄνδρες ἀοιδοὶ ἔασιν ἐπὶ χθόνα καὶ κιθαρισταί,

TH.95 That there are singers and poets on earth, and performers on harps; but

TH.96 ἐκ δὲ Διὸς βασιλῆες: ὁ δ' ὄλβιος, ὅντινα Μοῦσαι

TH.96 Kings are descended from Zeus. He's happy whomever the muses

TH.97 φίλωνται: γλυκερή οἱ ἀπὸ στόματος ῥέει αὐδή.

TH.97 Love and befriend; from his mouth flows speech that is sweeter than honey.

TH.98 εἰ γάρ τις καὶ πένθος ἔχων νεοκηδέϊ θυμῷ

TH.98 So, if a person through harboring grief in his freshly bereaved mind

TH.99 ἄζηται κραδίην ἀκαχήμενος, αὐτὰρ ἀοιδὸς

TH.99 Parches his heart with incessant distrees, and a wandering minstrel

TH.100 Μουσάων θεράπων κλεῖα προτέρων ἀνθρώπων

TH.100 Serving the muses then sings of the glorious doings of former

TH.101 ὑμνήσει μάκαράς τε θεοὺς οἳ Ὄλυμπον ἔχουσιν,

TH.101 Men, and the blessed immortals who hold and inhabit Olympus,

TH.102 αἶψ' ὅ γε δυσφροσυνέων ἐπιλήθεται οὐδέ τι κηδέων

TH.102 Instantly he will forget disagreeable thoughts and remember

TH.103 μέμνηται: ταχέως δὲ παρέτραπε δῶρα θεάων.

TH.103 Nothing of sorrow; the gifts of the goddesses swiftly divert him.

TH.104 χαίρετε τέκνα Διός, δότε δ' ἱμερόεσσαν ἀοιδήν:

TH.104 Hail to the children of Zeus, give us a delectable song and

TH.105 κλείετε δ' ἀθανάτων ἱερὸν γένος αἰὲν ἐόντων,

TH.105 Publish the holy descent of immortals existing forever,

TH.106 οἳ Γῆς ἐξεγένοντο καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος,

TH.106 Those that of old were engendered of Earth and of star-spangled heaven

TH.107 Νυκτός τε δνοφερῆς, οὕς θ' ἁλμυρὸς ἔτρεφε Πόντος.

TH.107 Or of mysterious night, even those that were bred by the salt sea.

TH.108 εἴπατε δ' ὡς τὰ πρῶτα θεοὶ καὶ γαῖα γένοντο

TH.108 Tell now how did the gods and the earth first come into being,

TH.109 καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ πόντος ἀπείριτος οἴδματι θυίων

TH.109 Rivers as well, and the limitless sea with its storm-driven swells, and

TH.110 ἄστρά τε λαμπετόωντα καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθεν:

TH.110 Also the twinkling stars and the wide-spread heaven above all.

TH.111 [οἵ τ' ἐκ τῶν ἐγένοντο, θεοὶ δωτῆρες ἐάων:]

TH.111 Tell how the gods then divided their wealth and appointed their riches,

TH.112 ὥς τ' ἄφενος δάσσαντο καὶ ὡς τιμὰς διέλοντο,

TH.112 How they at first got hold of the heights of much-wrinkled Olympus.

TH.113 ἠδὲ καὶ ὡς τὰ πρῶτα πολύπτυχον ἔσχον Ὄλυμπον.

TH.113 (blank line)

TH.114 ταῦτά μοι ἔσπετε Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαι

TH.114 Tell me of these things, Muses that dwell on the heights of Olympus,

TH.115 ἐξ ἀρχῆς, καὶ εἴπαθ', ὅτι πρῶτον γένετ' αὐτῶν.

TH.115 From the beginning, and say which first of them came into being.

TH.116 ἤτοι μὲν πρώτιστα Χάος γένετ': αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα

TH.116 First of all chaos came into existence, thereafter however

TH.117 Γαῖ' εὐρύστερνος, πάντων ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεὶ

TH.117 Broad-bosomed earth took form, the forever immovable seat of

TH.118 ἀθανάτων οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου,

TH.118 All of the deathless gods who inhabit the heights of Olympus,

TH.119 Τάρταρά τ' ἠερόεντα μυχῷ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης,

TH.119 And murky Tartarus, tucked in a cleft of extensively travelled

TH.120 ἠδ' Ἔρος, ὃς κάλλιστος ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι,

TH.120 Earth, also Eros, most beautifula god among all the immortals,

TH.121 λυσιμελής, πάντων τε θεῶν πάντων τ' ἀνθρώπων

TH.121 Loosening limbs, dominating the hearts and the minds and the well-laid

TH.122 δάμναται ἐν στήθεσσι νόον καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν.

TH.122 Plans both of all the immortals and all of susceptible mankind.

TH.123 ἐκ Χάεος δ' Ἔρεβός τε μέλαινά τε Νὺξ ἐγένοντο:

TH.123 Next out of Chaos with Erebus black Night too was engendered,

TH.124 Νυκτὸς δ' αὖτ' Αἰθήρ τε καὶ Ἡμέρη ἐξεγένοντο,

TH.124 And out of Night were the Aether and Daylight together begotten,

TH.125 οὓς τέκε κυσαμένη Ἐρέβει φιλότητι μιγεῖσα.

TH.125 Whom she conceived after lying with Erebus lovingly, and bore.

TH.126 Γαῖα δέ τοι πρῶτον μὲν ἐγείνατο ἶσον ἑωυτῇ

TH.126 Earth to begin with engendered her first born, star-studded Heaven,

TH.127 Οὐρανὸν ἀστερόενθ', ἵνα μιν περὶ πάντα καλύπτοι,

TH.127 Equal in size to herself, to conceal her on every side, in

TH.128 ὄφρ' εἴη μακάρεσσι θεοῖς ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεί,

TH.128 Order to furnish a solid foundation for the blessed forever.

TH.129 γείνατο δ' οὔρεα μακρά, θεᾶν χαρίεντας ἐναύλους

TH.129 Next she gave birth to immense, high mountains, the pleasant retreats of

TH.130 Νυμφέων, αἳ ναίουσιν ἀν' οὔρεα βησσήεντα,

TH.130 Goddesses, nymphs who inhabit the glens of the mountainous woodlands.

TH.131 ἠδὲ καὶ ἀτρύγετον πέλαγος τέκεν οἴδματι θυῖον,

TH.131 Also she bore the unfathomable deep with its wind-driven swells, the

TH.132 Πόντον, ἄτερ φιλότητος ἐφιμέρου: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα

TH.132 Sea, but without the assistence of love or desire; after she had

TH.133 Οὐρανῷ εὐνηθεῖσα τέκ' Ὠκεανὸν βαθυδίνην

TH.133 Slept with Uranus (the Sky) she gave birth to the eddying Ocean,

TH.134 Κοῖόν τε Κρεῖόν θ' Ὑπερίονά τ' Ἰαπετόν τε

TH.134 Coios and Creios, Hyperion, Iapetus, Thea and Rhea,

TH.135 Θείαν τε Ῥείαν τε Θέμιν τε Μνημοσύνην τε

TH.135 Themis, Mnemosyne, golden-wreathed Phoebe and lovable Tethis;

TH.136 Φοίβην τε χρυσοστέφανον Τηθύν τ' ἐρατεινήν.

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TH.137 τοὺς δὲ μέθ' ὁπλότατος γένετο Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης,

TH.137 Heaven and Earth bore, last of their children, intelligent Cronos,

TH.138 δεινότατος παίδων, θαλερὸν δ' ἤχθηρε τοκῆα.

TH.138 Their most redoubtable offspring, who hated his vigorous father.

TH.139 γείνατο δ' αὖ Κύκλωπας ὑπέρβιον ἦτορ ἔχοντας,

TH.139 Earth gave birth to the Cyclopes, superabundant in life-force,

TH.140 Βρόντην τε Στερόπην τε καὶ Ἄργην ὀβριμόθυμον,

TH.140 Thunder, Lightning and Flash, who was powerful and stout-hearted,

TH.141 οἳ Ζηνὶ βροντήν τ' ἔδοσαν τεῦξάν τε κεραυνόν.

TH.141 Furnishing thunder to Zeus, manufacturing thunderbolts for him.

TH.142 οἱ δ' ἤτοι τὰ μὲν ἄλλα θεοῖς ἐναλίγκιοι ἦσαν,

TH.142 Similar were they in every other respect to the gods

TH.143 μοῦνος δ' ὀφθαλμὸς μέσσῳ ἐνέκειτο μετώπῳ:

TH.143 Save that a singular eye was set in the midst of their foreheads.

TH.144 Κύκλωπες δ' ὄνομ' ἦσαν ἐπώνυμον, οὕνεκ' ἄρά σφεων

TH.144 Cyclopes were their eponymous nicknames, which is to say, "Round Eye,"

TH.145 κυκλοτερὴς ὀφθαλμὸς ἕεις ἐνέκειτο μετώπῳ:

TH.145 Seeing a singular circular eye was set in their foreheads.

TH.146 ἰσχὺς δ' ἠδὲ βίη καὶ μηχαναὶ ἦσαν ἐπ' ἔργοις.

TH.146 Physical strength, brute force, and mechanical cunning their works showed.

TH.147 ἄλλοι δ' αὖ Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἐξεγένοντο

TH.147 Three other sons were engendered by heaven and earth, who were very

TH.148 τρεῖς παῖδες μεγάλοι τε καὶ ὄβριμοι, οὐκ ὀνομαστοί,

TH.148 Mighty and powerful, not to be lightly or frequently mentioned,

TH.149 Κόττος τε Βριάρεώς τε Γύγης θ', ὑπερήφανα τέκνα.

TH.149 Cottus, Briareus, Gyges, unruly and troublesome children,

TH.150 τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπ' ὤμων ἀΐσσοντο,

TH.150 For from their shoulders a hundred hands unattractively sprouted,

TH.151 ἄπλαστοι, κεφαλαὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ πεντήκοντα

TH.151 Likewise there grew from the shoulders of each fifty heads on their

TH.152 ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν:

TH.152 Bodies. A strength irresistible went with their awful appearance.

TH.153 ἰσχὺς δ' ἄπλητος κρατερὴ μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ εἴδει.

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TH.154 ὅσσοι γὰρ Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἐξεγένοντο,

TH.154 Such were the terrible children begotten by heaven on earth and

TH.155 δεινότατοι παίδων, σφετέρῳ δ' ἤχθοντο τοκῆι

TH.155 Loathed from the first by their very own father, who, when they were born,

TH.156 ἐξ ἀρχῆς: καὶ τῶν μὲν ὅπως τις πρῶτα γένοιτο,

TH.156 Tucked them away in a hole in the earth, and prevented their coming

TH.157 πάντας ἀποκρύπτασκε καὶ ἐς φάος οὐκ ἀνίεσκε

TH.157 Up to the light; and Uranus rejoiced in his own evil-doing.

TH.158 Γαίης ἐν κευθμῶνι, κακῷ δ' ἐπετέρπετο ἔργῳ,

TH.158 Earth though gigantic was painfully stuffed on the inside and groaned out

TH.159 Οὐρανός: ἡ δ' ἐντὸς στοναχίζετο Γαῖα πελώρη

TH.159 Loud. She was quick to develop a scheme both cunning and wicked;

TH.160 στεινομένη, δολίην δὲ κακὴν ἐπεφράσσατο τέχνην.

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TH.161 αἶψα δὲ ποιήσασα γένος πολιοῦ ἀδάμαντος

TH.161 Swiftly creating an element, grey-coloured iron, of it she

TH.162 τεῦξε μέγα δρέπανον καὶ ἐπέφραδε παισὶ φίλοισιν:

TH.162 Fashioned a great big sickle, and said to her dearly-loved children,

TH.163 εἶπε δὲ θαρσύνουσα, φίλον τετιημένη ἦτορ:

TH.163 Speaking out boldly, courageously, although afraid in her own heart.

TH.164 "παῖδες ἐμοὶ καὶ πατρὸς ἀτασθάλου, αἴ κ' ἐθέλητε

TH.164 "My dear children, begotten, alas! of a reprobate father,

TH.165 πείθεσθαι: πατρός κε κακὴν τεισαίμεθα λώβην

TH.165 "Listen to me and obey: let us punish your father's wrong-doing,

TH.166 ὑμετέρου: πρότερος γὰρ ἀεικέα μήσατο ἔργα."

TH.166 He was the first to conceive of disgraceful and criminal conduct."

TH.167 ὣς φάτο: τοὺς δ' ἄρα πάντας ἕλεν δέος, οὐδέ τις αὐτῶν

TH.167 That's what she said. They were all of them frozen by fear, so that no one

TH.168 φθέγξατο. θαρσήσας δὲ μέγας Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης

TH.168 Uttered a word, until mighty, intelligent Cronos took courage

TH.169 αἶψ' αὖτις μύθοισι προσηύδα μητέρα κεδνήν:

TH.169 And he addressed in the following words his worshipful mother:

TH.170 "μῆτερ, ἐγώ κεν τοῦτό γ' ὑποσχόμενος τελέσαιμι

TH.170 "Mother, I would undertake to accomplish this deed, for I haven't

TH.171 ἔργον, ἐπεὶ πατρός γε δυσωνύμου οὐκ ἀλεγίζω

TH.171 Any respect at all for our wretched, unspeakableable father

TH.172 ἡμετέρου: πρότερος γὰρ ἀεικέα μήσατο ἔργα."

TH.172 Who was the first to conceive such disgraceful and criminal conduct."

TH.173 ὣς φάτο: γήθησεν δὲ μέγα φρεσὶ Γαῖα πελώρη:

TH.173 So he declared and magnificent earth was heartily gladdened.

TH.174 εἷσε δέ μιν κρύψασα λόχῳ, ἐνέθηκε δὲ χερσὶν

TH.174 Taking her son by his hand Earth hid him in ambush, and put a

TH.175 ἅρπην καρχαρόδοντα, δόλον δ' ὑπεθήκατο πάντα.

TH.175 Serrated scythe in his hand, and disclosed to him wholly her dire plot.

TH.176 ἦλθε δὲ νύκτ' ἐπάγων μέγας Οὐρανός, ἀμφὶ δὲ Γαίῃ

TH.176 Bringing on night, great Uranus visited Gaia desiring

TH.177 ἱμείρων φιλότητος ἐπέσχετο, καί ῥ' ἐτανύσθη

TH.177 Amorous intimacy; he extended himself all around and

TH.178 πάντῃ: ὁ δ' ἐκ λοχέοιο πάϊς ὠρέξατο χειρὶ

TH.178 Over the earth, while his son from his ambush protruded his left hand,

TH.179 σκαιῇ, δεξιτερῇ δὲ πελώριον ἔλλαβεν ἅρπην,

TH.179 Taking the formidable broad serrated blade in his right, he

TH.180 μακρὴν καρχαρόδοντα, φίλου δ' ἀπὸ μήδεα πατρὸς

TH.180 Hastily cut off his own father's privates and cast them behind him.

TH.181 ἐσσυμένως ἤμησε, πάλιν δ' ἔρριψε φέρεσθαι

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TH.182 ἐξοπίσω. τὰ μὲν οὔ τι ἐτώσια ἔκφυγε χειρός:

TH.182 Nor did they fly from his his hand without profit, for Gaia accepted

TH.183 ὅσσαι γὰρ ῥαθάμιγγες ἀπέσσυθεν αἱματόεσσαι,

TH.183 All of the blood drops gushing therefrom. When the year was completed

TH.184 πάσας δέξατο Γαῖα: περιπλομένων δ' ἐνιαυτῶν

TH.184 Earth gave birth to the Furies as well as the big, strong giants

TH.185 γείνατ' Ἐρινῦς τε κρατερὰς μεγάλους τε Γίγαντας,

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TH.186 τεύχεσι λαμπομένους, δολίχ' ἔγχεα χερσὶν ἔχοντας,

TH.186 Splendid in armour and carrying lances and swords in their large hands,

TH.187 Νύμφας θ' ἃς Μελίας καλέουσ' ἐπ' ἀπείρονα γαῖαν.

TH.187 Also the nymphs that are called after ash trees over the boundless

TH.188 μήδεα δ' ὡς τὸ πρῶτον ἀποτμήξας ἀδάμαντι

TH.188 Earth. So when Cronos had cut off those members with iron he threw them

TH.189 κάββαλ' ἀπ' ἠπείροιο πολυκλύστῳ ἐνὶ πόντῳ,

TH.189 Straight away down from the dry land in the tumultuous sea surge

TH.190 ὣς φέρετ' ἂμ πέλαγος πουλὺν χρόνον, ἀμφὶ δὲ λευκὸς

TH.190 Where they were carried along on the turbulent surface a long time.

TH.191 ἀφρὸς ἀπ' ἀθανάτου χροὸς ὤρνυτο: τῷ δ' ἔνι κούρη

TH.191 Round the divine flesh rose up a colorless foam whence a maiden

TH.192 ἐθρέφθη: πρῶτον δὲ Κυθήροισι ζαθέοισιν

TH.192 Grew; who at first by the holy island of Cythera drifted,

TH.193 ἔπλητ', ἔνθεν ἔπειτα περίρρυτον ἵκετο Κύπρον.

TH.193 Coming at length and at last to the wave-bound island of Cyprus,

TH.194 ἐκ δ' ἔβη αἰδοίη καλὴ θεός, ἀμφὶ δὲ ποίη

TH.194 Where the inspiring and beautiful goddess set foot, and the grass grew

TH.195 ποσσὶν ὕπο ῥαδινοῖσιν ἀέξετο: τὴν δ' Ἀφροδίτην

TH.195 Under her tapering feet, whom immortals and mortals together

TH.196 [ἀφρογενέα τε θεὰν καὶ ἐϋστέφανον Κυθέρειαν]

TH.196 Call Aphrodite because she was born from the spume of the sea, and

TH.197 κικλήσκουσι θεοί τε καὶ ἀνέρες, οὕνεκ' ἐν ἀφρῷ

TH.197 Beautifully wreathed Cytherea since she arrived at Cythera,

TH.198 θρέφθη: ἀτὰρ Κυθέρειαν, ὅτι προσέκυρσε Κυθήροις:

TH.198 Cyprus-engendered because she was born on the sea-isle of Cyprus,

TH.199 Κυπρογενέα δ', ὅτι γέντο περικλύστῳ ἐνὶ Κύπρῳ:

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TH.200 ἠδὲ φιλομμειδέα, ὅτι μηδέων ἐξεφαάνθη.

TH.200 Genital-loving because she had sprung from sexual organs.

TH.201 τῇ δ' Ἔρος ὡμάρτησε καὶ Ἵμερος ἕσπετο καλὸς

TH.201 Eros accompanied her, she was followed by comely Desire when

TH.202 γεινομένῃ τὰ πρῶτα θεῶν τ' ἐς φῦλον ἰούσῃ:

TH.202 First she was born, and she entered at once the immortals' assembly.

TH.203 ταύτην δ' ἐξ ἀρχῆς τιμὴν ἔχει ἠδὲ λέλογχε

TH.203 Such were the honours allotted to her from the very beginning.

TH.204 μοῖραν ἐν ἀνθρώποισι καὶ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι,

TH.204 This was the destined business she played among men and immortals:

TH.205 παρθενίους τ' ὀάρους μειδήματά τ' ἐξαπάτας τε

TH.205 Maidenly whispers and smiles and giggles and girlish deception,

TH.206 τέρψίν τε γλυκερὴν φιλότητά τε μειλιχίην τε.

TH.206 Pleasure exquisitely pleasant and love that is sweeter than honey.

TH.207 τοὺς δὲ πατὴρ Τιτῆνας ἐπίκλησιν καλέεσκε

TH.207 Mighty Uranus, who was their father, sarcastically named the

TH.208 παῖδας νεικείων μέγας Οὐρανός, οὓς τέκεν αὐτός:

TH.208 Sons he himself had begotten, collectively, "strenous Titans",

TH.209 φάσκε δὲ τιταίνοντας ἀτασθαλίῃ μέγα ῥέξαι

TH.209 Saying they'd striven outrageously, strenuously to perform a

TH.210 ἔργον, τοῖο δ' ἔπειτα τίσιν μετόπισθεν ἔσεσθαι.

TH.210 Terrible deed, one for which they would surely be punished hereafter.

TH.211 Νὺξ δ' ἔτεκε στυγερόν τε Μόρον καὶ Κῆρα μέλαιναν

TH.211 Night also bore reprehensible Doom and her relative black Fate;

TH.212 καὶ Θάνατον, τέκε δ' Ὕπνον, ἔτικτε δὲ φῦλον Ὀνείρων.

TH.212 She was delivered of Death and of Sleep and the legions of Nightmares.

TH.214 δεύτερον αὖ Μῶμον καὶ Ὀιζὺν ἀλγινόεσσαν

TH.213 Afterwards pitch black Night , who'd had intercourse really with no one,

TH.213 οὔ τινι κοιμηθεῖσα θεῶν τέκε Νὺξ ἐρεβεννή,

TH.214 Gave birth to bitter Reproach and to Suffering painful and poignant,

TH.215 Ἑσπερίδας θ', αἷς μῆλα πέρην κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο

TH.215 And the Hesperides who tend beautiful golden delicious

TH.216 χρύσεα καλὰ μέλουσι φέροντά τε δένδρεα καρπόν:

TH.216 Apples beyond illustrious Ocean, and fruit-bearing trees, too;

TH.217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους,

TH.217 Also she bore the implacable punishing Furies and three Fates,

TH.218 [Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵ τε βροτοῖσι

TH.218 Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, who at the hour of their birth give

TH.219 γεινομένοισι διδοῦσιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε,]

TH.219 Mankind their personal rations of bad luck and good for their lifetime.

TH.220 αἵ τ' ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε παραιβασίας ἐφέπουσιν,

TH.220 As for the Furies, they prosecute human transgressions, divine too,

TH.221 οὐδέ ποτε λήγουσι θεαὶ δεινοῖο χόλοιο,

TH.221 Nor do these goddesses ever relinquish their terrible anger

TH.222 πρίν γ' ἀπὸ τῷ δώωσι κακὴν ὄπιν, ὅστις ἁμάρτῃ.

TH.222 Till they repay with maleficent scrutiny every sinner.

TH.223 τίκτε δὲ καὶ Νέμεσιν πῆμα θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι

TH.223 Also deplorable Night bore Nemesis, who is the bane of

TH.224 Νὺξ ὀλοή: μετὰ τὴν δ' Ἀπάτην τέκε καὶ Φιλότητα

TH.224 Mortals, and then in succession Deception as well as Affection;

TH.225 Γῆράς τ' οὐλόμενον, καὶ Ἔριν τέκε καρτερόθυμον.

TH.225 Likewise lamentable Old Age bore she, and hard-hearted Conflict,

TH.226 αὐτὰρ Ἔρις στυγερὴ τέκε μὲν Πόνον ἀλγινόεντα

TH.226 Yet was despicable Conflict the mother of dolorous Labour,

TH.227 Λήθην τε Λιμόν τε καὶ Ἄλγεα δακρυόεντα

TH.227 Brutish Forgetfulness, Hunger and Pains that reduce one to tears and

TH.228 Ὑσμίνας τε Μάχας τε Φόνους τ' Ἀνδροκτασίας τε

TH.228 Battles and Fights of all kinds, like Homicide, Manslaughter, Murder,

TH.229 Νείκεά τε Ψεύδεά τε Λόγους τ' Ἀμφιλλογίας τε

TH.229 Quarrels and Lies, Hard Words, Altercations, Disputes, even Law Suits,

TH.230 Δυσνομίην τ' Ἄτην τε, συνήθεας ἀλλήλῃσιν,

TH.230 Civil Disorder and Ruin, which go by their nature together,

TH.231 Ὅρκόν θ', ὃς δὴ πλεῖστον ἐπιχθονίους ἀνθρώπους

TH.231 Finally Oaths, which of all things on earth worst punishes men when

TH.232 πημαίνει, ὅτε κέν τις ἑκὼν ἐπίορκον ὀμόσσῃ:

TH.232 Anyone perjures himself deliberately and is forsworn.

TH.233 Νηρέα δ' ἀψευδέα καὶ ἀληθέα γείνατο Πόντος

TH.233 Nereus, true, unforgetful and honest, was born of the Sea, the

TH.234 πρεσβύτατον παίδων: αὐτὰρ καλέουσι γέροντα,

TH.234 Eldest of all of his children, so sometimes they call him the Old Man,

TH.235 οὕνεκα νημερτής τε καὶ ἤπιος, οὐδὲ θεμίστων

TH.235 For he is truthful and gentle and never forgetful of justice,

TH.236 λήθεται, ἀλλὰ δίκαια καὶ ἤπια δήνεα οἶδεν:

TH.236 Seeing that all of his knowledge tends towards kindness and healing.

TH.237 αὖτις δ' αὖ Θαύμαντα μέγαν καὶ ἀγήνορα Φόρκυν

TH.237 Magical Thaumas and arrogant Phorcys again he engendered

TH.238 Γαίῃ μισγόμενος καὶ Κητὼ καλλιπάρηον

TH.238 After he coupled with Earth, in addition to pretty-cheeked Ceto

TH.239 Εὐρυβίην τ' ἀδάμαντος ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἔχουσαν.

TH.239 Handsome Eurybia with an immoveable heart in her bosom.

TH.240 Νηρῆος δ' ἐγένοντο μεγήριτα τέκνα θεάων

TH.240 These are the loveliest goddesses ever conceived in the fallow

TH.241 πόντῳ ἐν ἀτρυγέτῳ καὶ Δωρίδος ἠϋκόμοιο,

TH.241 Sea, and begotten by Nereus mingled in passion with well-kempt

TH.242 κούρης Ὠκεανοῖο τελήεντος ποταμοῖο,

TH.242 Doris, the daughter of Ocean, that perfectly circular river:

TH.243 Πρωθώ τ' Εὐκράντη τε Σαώ τ' Ἀμφιτρίτη τε

TH.243 Proto, Eucrante and Sao, together with great Amphitrite,

TH.244 Εὐδώρη τε Θέτις τε Γαλήνη τε Γλαύκη τε,

TH.244 Kindly Eudora and Thetis, Galena and Glauce the grey eyed

TH.245 Κυμοθόη Σπειώ τε θοὴ Θαλίη τ' ἐρόεσσα

TH.245 And Cymothoe and Speio, and Thoe and Halia, lovely

TH.246 Πασιθέη τ' Ἐρατώ τε καὶ Εὐνίκη ῥοδόπηχυς

TH.246 Faced Pasithea, Erato and Eunice who arms are outstandingly rosy,

TH.247 καὶ Μελίτη χαρίεσσα καὶ Εὐλιμένη καὶ Ἀγαυὴ

TH.247 Charming Melita and fair Eulimena and gracious Agave,

TH.248 Δωτώ τε Πρωτώ τε Φέρουσά τε Δυναμένη τε

TH.248 Doto and Proto and pleasing Pherousa and swift Dynamena,

TH.249 Νησαίη τε καὶ Ἀκταίη καὶ Πρωτομέδεια,

TH.249 Nisaea also, Actaea and Protmedea and Doris,

TH.250 Δωρὶς καὶ Πανόπη καὶ εὐειδὴς Γαλάτεια

TH.250 And Panopea and gorgeously formed Galatea and rosy-

TH.251 Ἱπποθόη τ' ἐρόεσσα καὶ Ἱππονόη ῥοδόπηχυς

TH.251 Armed Hipponoe and and sexy and sweet Hippothoe, as well as

TH.252 Κυμοδόκη θ', ἣ κύματ' ἐν ἠεροειδέϊ πόντῳ

TH.252 Slick Cymodoke who smooths out the billows and blasts of the goodly

TH.253 πνοιάς τε ζαέων ἀνέμων σὺν Κυματολήγῃ

TH.253 Winds on the fog-covered face of the deep with Cymatolege's

TH.254 ῥεῖα πρηΰνει καὶ ἐϋσφύρῳ Ἀμφιτρίτῃ,

TH.254 Help and the help of neat-ankled divine Amphitrite;

TH.255 Κυμώ τ' Ἠιόνη τε ἐϋστέφανός θ' Ἁλιμήδη

TH.255 Cymo and also Eione and beautifully-wreathed Alimede,

TH.256 Γλαυκονόμη τε φιλομμειδὴς καὶ Ποντοπόρεια

TH.256 Plus Glauconome, whose pleasure is laughter, and Pontoporea

TH.257 Λειαγόρη τε καὶ Εὐαγόρη καὶ Λαομέδεια

TH.257 And Leagora. Euagora, Leomedea and fair Polynoe,

TH.258 Πουλυνόη τε καὶ Αὐτονόη καὶ Λυσιάνασσα

TH.258 Lysianassa, Euarne (lovely to look at and wholesome

TH.259 Εὐάρνη τε φυὴν ἐρατὴ καὶ εἶδος ἄμωμος

TH.259 Naturally) and Psamathe as well with her perfect complexion,

TH.260 καὶ Ψαμάθη χαρίεσσα δέμας δίη τε Μενίππη

TH.260 Heavenly Menippe, Neso, Eupompe, Themisto, Pronoe,

TH.261 Νησώ τ' Εὐπόμπη τε Θεμιστώ τε Προνόη τε

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TH.262 Νημερτής θ', ἣ πατρὸς ἔχει νόον ἀθανάτοιο.

TH.262 Lastly Nemertes whose intellect equals her deathless papa's.

TH.263 αὗται μὲν Νηρῆος ἀμύμονος ἐξεγένοντο

TH.263 These are the daughter of Nereus, knowledgeable in all good works.

TH.264 κοῦραι πεντήκοντα, ἀμύμονα ἔργ' εἰδυῖαι:

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TH.265 Θαύμας δ' Ὠκεανοῖο βαθυρρείταο θύγατρα

TH.265 Thaumas was wed to Electra, a daughter of deep-rolling Ocean,

TH.266 ἠγάγετ' Ἠλέκτρην: ἡ δ' ὠκεῖαν τέκεν Ἶριν

TH.266 Who was the mother of swift-footed Iris as well as the hairy

TH.267 ἠϋκόμους θ' Ἁρπυίας, Ἀελλώ τ' Ὠκυπέτην τε,

TH.267 Harpies, Aello and swift Ocypetes, whose quick-moving wings kept

TH.268 αἵ ῥ' ἀνέμων πνοιῇσι καὶ οἰωνοῖς ἅμ' ἕπονται

TH.268 Up with the blasts of the winds and the birds, flying quickly as Time

TH.269 ὠκείῃς πτερύγεσσι: μεταχρόνιαι γὰρ ἴαλλον.

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TH.270 Φόρκυι δ' αὖ Κητὼ γραίας τέκε καλλιπαρήους

TH.270 Ceto delivered to Phorcys the Graiai with beautiful faces

TH.271 ἐκ γενετῆς πολιάς, τὰς δὴ Γραίας καλέουσιν

TH.271 Who had been grey-haired since birth, so that both the immortals and

TH.272 ἀθάνατοί τε θεοὶ χαμαὶ ἐρχόμενοί τ' ἄνθρωποι,

TH.272 Men who inhabit the whole earth call them "old Women" or Graiai,

TH.273 Πεμφρηδώ τ' ἐΰπεπλον Ἐνυώ τε κροκόπεπλον,

TH.273 Violet-garbed Pamphedo, Eyo whose garment is saffron;

TH.274 Γοργούς θ', αἳ ναίουσι πέρην κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο

TH.274 Also the Gorgons who dwell far beyond the illustrious Ocean

TH.275 ἐσχατιῇ πρὸς νυκτός, ἵν' Ἑσπερίδες λιγύφωνοι,

TH.275 Out on the borders of Night with the shrill-voiced daughters of

TH.276 Σθεννώ τ' Εὐρυάλη τε Μέδουσά τε λυγρὰ παθοῦσα:

TH.276 These being Sthenno, Euryale and gruesome Medusa who suffered

TH.277 ἡ μὲν ἔην θνητή, αἱ δ' ἀθάνατοι καὶ ἀγήρω,

TH.277 Grievously: she was the one who was mortal, the others immortal.

TH.278 αἱ δύο: τῇ δὲ μιῇ παρελέξατο κυανοχαίτης

TH.278 But with Medusa alone black haired Poseidon would lie in

TH.279 ἐν μαλακῷ λειμῶνι καὶ ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσι.

TH.279 Deep and luxuriant meadows amid all the flowers of springtime.

TH.280 τῆς ὅτε δὴ Περσεὺς κεφαλὴν ἀπεδειροτόμησεν,

TH.280 Later, when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang from her blood great

TH.281 ἐξέθορε Χρυσάωρ τε μέγας καὶ Πήγασος ἵππος.

TH.281 Chrysaor, also the winged horse Pegasus, namely the "Spring-Sprung"

TH.282 τῷ μὲν ἐπώνυμον ἦν, ὅτ' ἄρ' Ὠκεανοῦ παρὰ πηγὰς

TH.282 Seeing he sprang from the springs that surround the headwaters of Ocean.

TH.283 γένθ', ὁ δ' ἄορ χρύσειον ἔχων μετὰ χερσὶ φίλῃσι.

TH.283 Chrysaor (Gold Sword) was so called from his grasping a golden

TH.284 χὠ μὲν ἀποπτάμενος, προλιπὼν χθόνα μητέρα μήλων,

TH.284 Sword. Winged Pegasus, flying away left behind him the earth, the

TH.285 ἵκετ' ἐς ἀθανάτους: Ζηνὸς δ' ἐν δώμασι ναίει

TH.285 Mother of flocks, and approached the immortals and dwells in the halls of

TH.286 βροντήν τε στεροπήν τε φέρων Διῒ μητιόεντι:

TH.286 Zeus where he brings the Dispenser of Council his thunder and lightning,

TH.287 Χρυσάωρ δ' ἔτεκε τρικέφαλον Γηρυονῆα

TH.287 Meanwhile Chrysaor, having seduced Callirhoe the daughter of far-famed

TH.288 μιχθεὶς Καλλιρόῃ κούρῃ κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο:

TH.288 Ocean, begot fell Geryon who had three heads on his shoulders,

TH.289 τὸν μὲν ἄρ' ἐξενάριξε βίη Ἡρακληείη

TH.289 Whom overmuscular Heracles killed on the isle Erytheia

TH.290 βουσὶ πάρ' εἰλιπόδεσσι περιρρύτῳ εἰν Ἐρυθείῃ

TH.290 The same day that he drove off his broad-browed rambling cattle

TH.291 ἤματι τῷ, ὅτε περ βοῦς ἤλασεν εὐρυμετώπους

TH.291 Even to blessed Tyrins, transversing the fords of the Ocean

TH.292 Τίρυνθ' εἰς ἱερήν, διαβὰς πόρον Ὠκεανοῖο,

TH.292 After he'd murdered the herdsman, Eurytion, also his kinsman

TH.293 Ὄρθόν τε κτείνας καὶ βουκόλον Εὐρυτίωνα

TH.293 Orthus who lived in a dim homestead beyond glorious Ocean.

TH.294 σταθμῷ ἐν ἠερόεντι πέρην κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο.

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TH.295 ἡ δ' ἔτεκ' ἄλλο πέλωρον ἀμήχανον, οὐδὲν ἐοικὸς

TH.295 Ceto gave birth to another impossible monster resembling

TH.296 θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις οὐδ' ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι,

TH.296 Neither in any respect mere mortals or godly immortals,

TH.297 σπῆϊ ἔνι γλαφυρῷ, θείην κρατερόφρον' Ἔχιδναν,

TH.297 Deep in a cavernous hole in the earth, strong-minded Echidna;

TH.298 ἥμισυ μὲν νύμφην ἑλικώπιδα καλλιπάρηον,

TH.298 Half of her looked like a nymph, bright-glancing and fair of complexion,

TH.299 ἥμισυ δ' αὖτε πέλωρον ὄφιν δεινόν τε μέγαν τε

TH.299 Half of her looked like a monstrous serpent tremendous and dread with

TH.300 αἰόλον ὠμηστήν, ζαθέης ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης.

TH.300 Spots on her skin, who devoured raw flesh in the bowels of blest earth.

TH.301 ἔνθα δέ οἱ σπέος ἐστὶ κάτω κοίλῃ ὑπὸ πέτρῃ

TH.301 There was her cave underneath an immovable hollowed-out boulder

TH.302 τηλοῦ ἀπ' ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν θνητῶν τ' ἀνθρώπων,

TH.302 Far from the regions of men who are mortal and gods who are deathless;

TH.303 ἔνθ' ἄρα οἱ δάσσαντο θεοὶ κλυτὰ δώματα ναίειν.

TH.303 There the Olympians gave her a glorious dwelling to live in

TH.304 ἡ δ' ἔρυτ' εἰν Ἀρίμοισιν ὑπὸ χθόνα λυγρὴ Ἔχιδνα,

TH.304 Under the soil of Arima in watchfulness, gruesome Echidna;

TH.305 ἀθάνατος νύμφη καὶ ἀγήραος ἤματα πάντα.

TH.305 Deathless and ageless that nymph lives all of the days of her lifetime.

TH.306 τῇ δὲ Τυφάονά φασι μιγήμεναι ἐν φιλότητι

TH.306 And with that bright-eyed maiden there coupled in sexual union,

TH.307 δεινόν θ' ὑβριστήν τ' ἄνομόν θ' ἑλικώπιδι κούρῃ:

TH.307 So it is said, overbearing and lawless and terrible Typhon.

TH.308 ἡ δ' ὑποκυσαμένη τέκετο κρατερόφρονα τέκνα.

TH.308 Pregnant, Echidna gave birth to the folowing murderous children.

TH.309 Ὄρθον μὲν πρῶτον κύνα γείνατο Γηρυονῆι:

TH.309 Orthus was first to be born, fell Geryon's bloodthirsty hound dog.

TH.310 δεύτερον αὖτις ἔτικτεν ἀμήχανον, οὔ τι φατειόν,

TH.310 Second she bore an indomitable, an unspeakable monster,

TH.311 Κέρβερον ὠμηστήν, Ἀΐδεω κύνα χαλκεόφωνον,

TH.311 Cerberus, eater of raw flesh, Hades' stentorian watch dog.

TH.312 πεντηκοντακέφαλον, ἀναιδέα τε κρατερόν τε:

TH.312 Cerberus had fifty heads and was insolent, reckless and mighty.

TH.313 τὸ τρίτον Ὕδρην αὖτις ἐγείνατο λύγρ' εἰδυῖαν

TH.313 Third she gave birth to the Hydra of Lerna with grisly ideas,

TH.314 Λερναίην, ἣν θρέψε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη

TH.314 Nurtured by white-armed Hera's implacable hatred for strong-armed

TH.315 ἄπλητον κοτέουσα βίῃ Ἡρακληείῃ.

TH.315 Heracles, (heir of Amphitryon, by-blow of Zeus), who destroyed the

TH.316 καὶ τὴν μὲν Διὸς υἱὸς ἐνήρατο νηλέϊ χαλκῷ

TH.316 Beast with his pitiless bronze sword, helped by Iolaus and wily

TH.317 Ἀμφιτρυωνιάδης σὺν ἀρηιφίλῳ Ἰολάῳ

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TH.318 Ἡρακλέης βουλῇσιν Ἀθηναίης ἀγελείης:

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TH.319 ἡ δὲ Χίμαιραν ἔτικτε πνέουσαν ἀμαιμάκετον πῦρ,

TH.319 Warlike Athena. Now Hydra gave birth to Chimaera a great and

TH.320 δεινήν τε μεγάλην τε ποδώκεά τε κρατερήν τε.

TH.320 Terrible creature, exhaling unquenchable fire, fleet footed,

TH.321 τῆς ἦν τρεῖς κεφαλαί: μία μὲν χαροποῖο λέοντος,

TH.321 Strong, who possessed three heafs, of which one was a hideous lion's,

TH.322 ἡ δὲ χιμαίρης, ἡ δ' ὄφιος κρατεροῖο δράκοντος.

TH.322 One was a goat's and the third was a serpent's, a dangerous dragon,

TH.323 [πρόσθε λέων, ὄπιθεν δὲ δράκων, μέσση δὲ χίμαιρα,

TH.323 Lion in front, at the tail end a snake and a goat in the middle

TH.324 δεινὸν ἀποπνείουσα πυρὸς μένος αἰθομένοιο.]

TH.324 Breathing a blast incandescent and blazing of withering fire.

TH.325 τὴν μὲν Πήγασος εἷλε καὶ ἐσθλὸς Βελλεροφόντης:

TH.325 Pegasus slew the Chimaera with noble Bellerophon's aid.

TH.326 ἡ δ' ἄρα Φῖκ' ὀλοὴν τέκε Καδμείοισιν ὄλεθρον,

TH.326 But then the Hydra submitting to Orthos gave birth to the deadly

TH.327 Ὄρθῳ ὑποδμηθεῖσα, Νεμειαῖόν τε λέοντα,

TH.327 Sphinx, the destruction of Thebes, and the lion that wasted Nemea,

TH.328 τόν ῥ' Ἥρη θρέψασα Διὸς κυδρὴ παράκοιτις

TH.328 Whom most respectable Hera the consort of Zeus educated

TH.329 γουνοῖσιν κατένασσε Νεμείης, πῆμ' ἀνθρώποις.

TH.329 For devastating the foothills of Mount Nemea, a pest for

TH.330 ἔνθ' ἄρ' ὅ γ' οἰκείων ἐλεφαίρετο φῦλ' ἀνθρώπων,

TH.330 Men, as it preyed on the tribes of mankind who inhabited that land,

TH.331 κοιρανέων Τρητοῖο Νεμείης ἠδ' Ἀπέσαντος:

TH.331 Lording it over Apesa and Tretus in hilly Nemea;

TH.332 ἀλλά ἑ ἲς ἐδάμασσε βίης Ἡρακληείης.

TH.332 Nevertheless the superior strngth of great Hercales whipped it.

TH.333 Κητὼ δ' ὁπλότατον Φόρκυι φιλότητι μιγεῖσα

TH.333 Finally Ceto, united in sexual congress with Phorcys,

TH.334 γείνατο δεινὸν ὄφιν, ὃς ἐρεμνῆς κεύθεσι γαίης

TH.334 Brought forth a terrible serpent which down in the hollows of dark earth

TH.335 πείρασιν ἐν μεγάλοις παγχρύσεα μῆλα φυλάσσει.

TH.335 On its titanic perimeter watches the solid gold apples;

TH.336 τοῦτο μὲν ἐκ Κητοῦς καὶ Φόρκυνος γένος ἐστί.

TH.336 This is the fabulous progeney born to Ceto and Phorcys.

TH.337 Τηθὺς δ' Ὠκεανῷ ποταμοὺς τέκε δινήεντας,

TH.337 Tethys gave birth to the following turbulent rivers by Ocean,

TH.338 Νεῖλόν τ' Ἀλφειόν τε καὶ Ἠριδανὸν βαθυδίνην,

TH.338 Namely the Nile and the Alpheius, also the deep Eridanus,

TH.339 Στρυμόνα Μαίανδρόν τε καὶ Ἴστρον καλλιρέεθρον

TH.339 Strymon, Menander, as well as the beautiful streams of the Danube,

TH.340 Φᾶσίν τε Ῥῆσόν τ' Ἀχελώϊον τ' ἀργυροδίνην

TH.340 Phasis and Rhesus and swift Achelous with its silvery current.

TH.341 Νέσσόν τε Ῥοδίον θ' Ἁλιάκμονά θ' Ἑπτάπορόν τε

TH.341 Nessus and Rhodion, deep Haliacmon and swift Heptaporos,

TH.342 Γρήνικόν τε καὶ Αἴσηπον θεῖόν τε Σιμοῦντα

TH.342 Granicus, even Aesopus and equally holy Simois,

TH.343 Πηνειόν τε καὶ Ἕρμον ἐϋρρείτην τε Κάϊκον

TH.343 Peneus. Hermus amd mighty Suggaris, smooth-flowing Caicus,

TH.344 Σαγγάριόν τε μέγαν Λάδωνά τε Παρθένιόν τε

TH.344 Ladon, Parthenius, placid Ardescus and sacred Scamander.

TH.345 Εὔηνόν τε καὶ Ἀλδῆσκον θεῖόν τε Σκάμανδρον:

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TH.346 τίκτε δὲ Κουράων ἱερὸν γένος, αἳ κατὰ γαῖαν

TH.346 Thetis gave birth to as well a divine generation of daughters

TH.347 ἄνδρας κουρίζουσι σὺν Ἀπόλλωνι ἄνακτι

TH.347 Who on the earth with his lordship Apollo as well as the rivers

TH.348 καὶ ποταμοῖς, ταύτην δὲ Διὸς πάρα μοῖραν ἔχουσι,

TH.348 Raise up the children of men, a vocation that Zeus has appointed:

TH.349 Πειθώ τ' Ἀδμήτη τε Ἰάνθη τ' Ἠλέκτρη τε

TH.349 Peitho, Admete, Ianthe, Electra and Doris and Prymno,

TH.350 Δωρίς τε Πρυμνώ τε καὶ Οὐρανίη θεοειδὴς

TH.350 Heavenly-looking Urania, Hippo and Clymene also,

TH.351 Ἱππώ τε Κλυμένη τε Ῥόδειά τε Καλλιρόη τε

TH.351 Rhodeia and Callirhoe and Zeuxo and Clytie, Iduia

TH.352 Ζευξώ τε Κλυτίη τε Ἰδυῖά τε Πασιθόη τε

TH.352 And Pasithoe, Plexaura, Galaxaura and winsome Dione,

TH.353 Πληξαύρη τε Γαλαξαύρη τ' ἐρατή τε Διώνη

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TH.354 Μηλόβοσίς τε Θόη τε καὶ εὐειδὴς Πολυδώρη

TH.354 Plus Melobosis and Thoe and sweet-to-behold Polydora,

TH.355 Κερκηΐς τε φυὴν ἐρατὴ Πλουτώ τε βοῶπις

TH.355 Cerceis, naturally lovable, Pluto, and cow-eyed Perseis,

TH.356 Περσηΐς τ' Ἰάνειρά τ' Ἀκάστη τε Ξάνθη τε

TH.356 Ianeira, Acaste and Xanthe, Petreia and lovely Menestho,

TH.357 Πετραίη τ' ἐρόεσσα Μενεσθώ τ' Εὐρώπη τε

TH.357 Also Europa and Metis, as well as Euronyme and, in her yellow

TH.358 Μῆτίς τ' Εὐρυνόμη τε Τελεστώ τε κροκόπεπλος

TH.358 Tunic, Telestho, Chriseis and Asia, delightful Calypso,

TH.359 Χρυσηΐς τ' Ἀσίη τε καὶ ἱμερόεσσα Καλυψὼ

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TH.360 Εὐδώρη τε Τύχη τε καὶ Ἀμφιρὼ Ὠκυρόη τε

TH.360 Also Eudora and Tyche, Amphitro, and foremost of all them, Styx.

TH.361 καὶ Στύξ, ἣ δή σφεων προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων.

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TH.362 αὗται ἄρ' Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ Τηθύος ἐξεγένοντο

TH.362 These are the senior maidens born to the Ocean and Tethys,

TH.363 πρεσβύταται κοῦραι: πολλαί γε μέν εἰσι καὶ ἄλλαι:

TH.363 But there are plenty of other trim-ankled and comely

TH.364 τρὶς γὰρ χίλιαί εἰσι τανίσφυροι Ὠκεανῖναι,

TH.364 Daughters of Ocean who, scattered about everywhere, altogether

TH.365 αἵ ῥα πολυσπερέες γαῖαν καὶ βένθεα λίμνης

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TH.366 πάντῃ ὁμῶς ἐφέπουσι, θεάων ἀγλαὰ τέκνα.

TH.366 Service the earth and the deeps of the waters, a glorious goddess's

TH.367 τόσσοι δ' αὖθ' ἕτεροι ποταμοὶ καναχηδὰ ῥέοντες,

TH.367 Children, and such are the other abrupt loud-babbling rivers,

TH.368 υἱέες Ὠκεανοῦ, τοὺς γείνατο πότνια Τηθύς:

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TH.369 τῶν ὄνομ' ἀργαλέον πάντων βροτὸν ἄνδρα ἐνισπεῖν,

TH.369 All of whose names it is hard for a man who is mortal to tell, but

TH.370 οἱ δὲ ἕκαστοι ἴσασιν, ὅσοι περιναιετάουσι.

TH.370 Those who inhabit the country surrounding them know them in detail.

TH.371 Θεία δ' Ἠέλιόν τε μέγαν λαμπράν τε Σελήνην

TH.371 Theia, seduced by Hyperion, bore the magnificent Sun and

TH.372 Ἠῶ θ', ἣ πάντεσσιν ἐπιχθονίοισι φαείνει

TH.372 Radiant Moon, also Dawn who appears to all dwellers on earth and

TH.373 ἀθανάτοις τε θεοῖσι τοὶ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχουσι,

TH.373 To the immortals, the gods who inhabit the spaces of heaven.

TH.374 γείναθ' ὑποδμηθεῖσ' Ὑπερίονος ἐν φιλότητι.

TH.374 Lying in congugal union with Crio, superb Eurybia

TH.375 Κρείῳ δ' Εὐρυβίη τέκεν ἐν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα

TH.375 Bore to him mighty Astraeus and also magnificent Pallas,

TH.376 Ἀστραῖόν τε μέγαν Πάλλαντά τε δῖα θεάων

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TH.377 Πέρσην θ', ὃς καὶ πᾶσι μετέπρεπεν ἰδμοσύνῃσιν.

TH.377 Perses as well, a preeminent sage as compared to all others.

TH.378 Ἀστραίῳ δ' Ἠὼς ἀνέμους τέκε καρτεροθύμους,

TH.378 Eos conceived by Astraeus the strong-willed winds, when the goddess

TH.379 ἀργεστὴν Ζέφυρον Βορέην τ' αἰψηροκέλευθον

TH.379 Lay in delight with the god: these were Zephyr, the scouring West Wind,

TH.380 καὶ Νότον, ἐν φιλότητι θεὰ θεῷ εὐνηθεῖσα.

TH.380 Boreas, rushing and fleet-footed North Wind and Notus the South Wind.

TH.381 τοὺς δὲ μέτ' ἀστέρα τίκτεν Ἑωσφόρον Ἠριγένεια

TH.381 Afterwards early-born Eos gave birth to the stars that induct the

TH.382 ἄστρά τε λαμπετόωντα, τά τ' οὐρανὸς ἐστεφάνωται.

TH.382 Dawn, and the rest of the glittering stars such as garland the heavens.

TH.383 Στὺξ δ' ἔτεκ' Ὠκεανοῦ θυγάτηρ Πάλλαντι μιγεῖσα

TH.383 Styx, eldest daughter of Ocean, from sexual union with Pallas

TH.384 Ζῆλον καὶ Νίκην καλλίσφυρον ἐν μεγάροισι

TH.384 Bore to him emulous Zelos and trim-ankled victorious, Nike,

TH.385 καὶ Κράτος ἠδὲ Βίην ἀριδείκετα γείνατο τέκνα.

TH.385 There in their halls, also Kratos and Bios, or Strength and innate Force,

TH.386 τῶν οὐκ ἔστ' ἀπάνευθε Διὸς δόμος, οὐδέ τις ἕδρη,

TH.386 Glorious children, whose home was not anywhere other than Zeus's,

TH.387 οὐδ' ὁδός, ὅππῃ μὴ κείνοις θεὸς ἡγεμονεύει,

TH.387 Having no place and no way save where the divinity led them,

TH.388 ἀλλ' αἰεὶ πὰρ Ζηνὶ βαρυκτύπῳ ἑδριόωνται.

TH.388 But they are dwelling forever at Zeus the deep thunder's side as

TH.389 ὣς γὰρ ἐβούλευσε Στὺξ ἄφθιτος Ὠκεανίνη

TH.389 Styx their unwithering mother the daughter of Ocean decided

TH.390 ἤματι τῷ, ὅτε πάντας Ὀλύμπιος ἀστεροπητὴς

TH.390 On the same day the Olympian star-bright hurler of lightning

TH.391 ἀθανάτους ἐκάλεσσε θεοὺς ἐς μακρὸν Ὄλυμπον,

TH.391 Summoned together the holy immortals to mighty Olympus,

TH.392 εἶπε δ', ὃς ἂν μετὰ εἷο θεῶν Τιτῆσι μάχοιτο,

TH.392 Saying if one of the gods were to fight at his side with the Titans

TH.393 μή τιν' ἀπορραίσειν γεράων, τιμὴν δὲ ἕκαστον

TH.393 He would not cast him aside from his rights but that everyone should

TH.394 ἑξέμεν ἣν τὸ πάρος γε μετ' ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι.

TH.394 All of his previous honours and offices with the immortals.

TH.395 τὸν δ' ἔφαθ', ὅστις ἄτιμος ὑπὸ Κρόνου ἠδ' ἀγέραστος,

TH.395 Further he said that whoever had gone without honour or office

TH.396 τιμῆς καὶ γεράων ἐπιβησέμεν, ἣ θέμις ἐστίν.

TH.396 Under old Cronos would come into honours and offices justly.

TH.397 ἦλθε δ' ἄρα πρώτη Στὺξ ἄφθιτος Οὔλυμπόνδε

TH.397 Styx the undying was first of the gods in approaching Olympus,

TH.398 σὺν σφοῖσιν παίδεσσι φίλου διὰ μήδεα πατρός:

TH.398 Bringing her children, advised by her wise and affectionate father.

TH.399 τὴν δὲ Ζεὺς τίμησε, περισσὰ δὲ δῶρα ἔδωκεν.

TH.399 Zeus in his gratitude honoured her, giving her excellent presents,

TH.400 αὐτὴν μὲν γὰρ ἔθηκε θεῶν μέγαν ἔμμεναι ὅρκον,

TH.400 Making her function to serve as the solemn oath of the great gods,

TH.401 παῖδας δ' ἤματα πάντα ἑοῦ μεταναιέτας εἶναι.

TH.401 Making her children for all of their days coinhabitants with him.

TH.402 ὣς δ' αὔτως πάντεσσι διαμπερές, ὥς περ ὑπέστη,

TH.402 Such and in so many words was his promise which he implemented

TH.403 ἐξετέλεσσ': αὐτὸς δὲ μέγα κρατεῖ ἠδὲ ἀνάσσει.

TH.403 Thoroughly. Great is the power he wields and his kingship is mighty.

TH.404 Φοίβη δ' αὖ Κοίου πολυήρατον ἦλθεν ἐς εὐνήν:

TH.404 Phoebe anon entered into the comfortable bed of Coeus

TH.405 κυσαμένη δἤπειτα θεὰ θεοῦ ἐν φιλότητι

TH.405 Where she conceived the result of the love of a god for a goddess,

TH.406 Λητὼ κυανόπεπλον ἐγείνατο, μείλιχον αἰεί,

TH.406 Then she gave birth to sub-fusc-robed Leto, eternally pleasant,

TH.407 ἤπιον ἀνθρώποισι καὶ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι,

TH.407 Kind to all men that are mortal and gods who of course are immortal,

TH.408 μείλιχον ἐξ ἀρχῆς, ἀγανώτατον ἐντὸς Ὀλύμπου.

TH.408 Pleasantest from the beginning, agreeably mild on Olympus.

TH.409 γείνατο δ' Ἀστερίην εὐώνυμον, ἥν ποτε Πέρσης

TH.409 Next she gave birth to Asteria, well-named goddess whom Perses

TH.410 ἠγάγετ' ἐς μέγα δῶμα φίλην κεκλῆσθαι ἄκοιτιν.

TH.410 Took home once to his marvellous house to be known as his dear wife.

TH.411 ἡ δ' ὑποκυσαμένη Ἑκάτην τέκε, τὴν περὶ πάντων

TH.411 She, being pregnant, gave birth unto Hecate Hell-cat whom highest

TH.412 Ζεὺς Κρονίδης τίμησε: πόρεν δέ οἱ ἀγλαὰ δῶρα,

TH.412 Zeus son of Cronos esteemed, and he gave her splendiferous presents,

TH.413 μοῖραν ἔχειν γαίης τε καὶ ἀτρυγέτοιο θαλάσσης.

TH.413 Namely a part of the earth and her share in the fallow sea-bed;

TH.414 ἡ δὲ καὶ ἀστερόεντος ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ ἔμμορε τιμῆς,

TH.414 She has an honourable place also in star-spangled heaven,

TH.415 ἀθανάτοις τε θεοῖσι τετιμένη ἐστὶ μάλιστα.

TH.415 And she is glorified most of all by the gods who are deathless.

TH.416 καὶ γὰρ νῦν, ὅτε πού τις ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων

TH.416 So nowadays when one of the earth-dwelling brethren performs the

TH.417 ἔρδων ἱερὰ καλὰ κατὰ νόμον ἱλάσκηται,

TH.417 Beautful rites in accordance with custom and prays to the gods he

TH.418 κικλήσκει Ἑκάτην: πολλή τέ οἱ ἕσπετο τιμὴ

TH.418 Calls upon Hecate. Full and abundant the honour that follows

TH.419 ῥεῖα μάλ', ᾧ πρόφρων γε θεὰ ὑποδέξεται εὐχάς,

TH.419 Easily him whose prayers the considerate goddess receives well,

TH.420 καί τέ οἱ ὄλβον ὀπάζει, ἐπεὶ δύναμίς γε πάρεστιν.

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TH.421 ὅσσοι γὰρ Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἐξεγένοντο

TH.421 For of such as were born of the Earth and the Sky-God she also

TH.422 καὶ τιμὴν ἔλαχον, τούτων ἔχει αἶσαν ἁπάντων:

TH.422 Garnered respect, and of all she posseses the lot that is her due.

TH.423 οὐδέ τί μιν Κρονίδης ἐβιήσατο οὐδέ τ' ἀπηύρα,

TH.423 Zeus son of Cronos in nothing abused her and took nothing from her

TH.424 ὅσσ' ἔλαχεν Τιτῆσι μέτα προτέροισι θεοῖσιν,

TH.424 That was in gift to the Titanic gods who came earlier, rather

TH.425 ἀλλ' ἔχει, ὡς τὸ πρῶτον ἀπ' ἀρχῆς ἔπλετο δασμός.

TH.425 She holds on, as at first the inital division decided,

TH.426 οὐδ', ὅτι μουνογενής, ἧσσον θεὰ ἔμμορε τιμῆς

TH.426 And wields her ancient rights on the earth, on the sea and in heaven;

TH.427 καὶ γεράων γαίῃ τε καὶ οὐρανῷ ἠδὲ θαλάσσῃ,

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TH.428 ἀλλ' ἔτι καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον, ἐπεὶ Ζεὺς τίεται αὐτήν.

TH.428 But yet much more still Zeus presents her in kindness:

TH.429 ᾧ δ' ἐθέλῃ, μεγάλως παραγίνεται ἠδ' ὀνίνησιν:

TH.429 Sitting by reverend kings enthroned she assists them in judgement.

TH.434 ἔν τε δίκῃ βασιλεῦσι παρ' αἰδοίοισι καθίζει,

TH.430 Him whom she wants to she mightily gives good things in abundance.

TH.430 ἔν τ' ἀγορῇ λαοῖσι μεταπρέπει, ὅν κ' ἐθέλῃσιν:

TH.431 So in the forum of folk she advances the man whom she favours

TH.431 ἠδ' ὁπότ' ἐς πόλεμον φθισήνορα θωρήσσωνται

TH.432 And when for mortal combat men buckle their cuirasses up then,

TH.432 ἀνέρες, ἔνθα θεὰ παραγίνεται, οἷς κ' ἐθέλῃσι

TH.433 Lo! there is Hecate also, and unto such men as she wishes

TH.433 νίκην προφρονέως ὀπάσαι καὶ κῦδος ὀρέξαι.

TH.434 Easily offers victory, loading her servants with honour.

TH.435 ἐσθλὴ δ' ἱππήεσσι παρεστάμεν, οἷς κ' ἐθέλῃσιν:

TH.435 Fair is she likewise when men contend in their beautiful contests

TH.436 ἐσθλὴ δ' αὖθ' ὁπότ' ἄνδρες ἀεθλεύωσ' ἐν ἀγῶνι:

TH.436 For in that instance as well she is present to honour and profit

TH.437 ἔνθα θεὰ καὶ τοῖς παραγίνεται ἠδ' ὀνίνησι:

TH.437 One who by strength and by prowess prevails in athletics and will with

TH.438 νικήσας δὲ βίῃ καὶ κάρτει, καλὸν ἄεθλον

TH.438 Ease win first prize and elatedly bring it back home to his parents.

TH.439 ῥεῖα φέρει χαίρων τε, τοκεῦσι δὲ κῦδος ὀπάζει.

TH.439 Nobly she stands by the horsmen she favours, and as for the sailors,

TH.440 καὶ τοῖς, οἳ γλαυκὴν δυσπέμφελον ἐργάζονται,

TH.440 Men who work hard on the snot-coloured, comfortless sea when

TH.441 εὔχονται δ' Ἑκάτῃ καὶ ἐρικτύπῳ ἐννοσιγαίῳ,

TH.441 Ever they pray unto her and the discordant, earth-moving Sea Lord,

TH.442 ῥηϊδίως ἄγρην κυδρὴ θεὸς ὤπασε πολλήν,

TH.442 Readily Hecate sends a great haul for their nets, but should that be her pleasure,

TH.443 ῥεῖα δ' ἀφείλετο φαινομένην, ἐθέλουσά γε θυμῷ.

TH.443 Readily takes it away when she wishes as soon as they've seen it.

TH.444 ἐσθλὴ δ' ἐν σταθμοῖσι σὺν Ἑρμῇ ληΐδ' ἀέξειν:

TH.444 Also she helps in the barn beside Hermes in feeding the livestock,

TH.445 βουκολίας δὲ βοῶν τε καὶ αἰπόλια πλατέ' αἰγῶν

TH.445 Herding the cattle; she droves congregations of wandering goats and

TH.446 ποίμνας τ' εἰροπόκων ὀΐων, θυμῷ γ' ἐθέλουσα,

TH.446 Flocks of shambling sheep; if she wishs she may increase them

TH.447 ἐξ ὀλίγων βριάει κἀκ πολλῶν μείονα θῆκεν.

TH.447 Or may diminish their number, making a few out of many.

TH.448 οὕτω τοι καὶ μουνογενὴς ἐκ μητρὸς ἐοῦσα

TH.448 Thus as she is the only born child of her mother,

TH.449 πᾶσι μετ' ἀθανάτοισι τετίμηται γεράεσσι.

TH.449 Thereafter she is honored among all the divine immortals

TH.450 θῆκε δέ μιν Κρονίδης κουροτρόφον, οἳ μετ' ἐκείνην

TH.450 And Zeus made her the nanny of all mortal children

TH.451 ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἴδοντο φάος πολυδερκέος Ἠοῦς.

TH.451 Who with their own eyes thereafter behold the light of the sunrise.

TH.452 οὕτως ἐξ ἀρχῆς κουροτρόφος, αἳ δέ τε τιμαί.

TH.452 So she was born from the start the nurse of these children and these

TH.453 Ῥείη δὲ δμηθεῖσα Κρόνῳ τέκε φαίδιμα τέκνα,

TH.453 Were her honors. But Rhea, submitting to Cronos bore splendid

TH.454 Ἱστίην Δήμητρα καὶ Ἥρην χρυσοπέδιλον,

TH.454 Offspring, Hestia, also Demeter and Hera whose sandals are golden,

TH.455 ἴφθιμόν τ' Ἀΐδην, ὃς ὑπὸ χθονὶ δώματα ναίει

TH.455 Powerful, strong-armed Hades who under the earth makes his dwelling

TH.456 νηλεὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, καὶ ἐρίκτυπον ἐννοσίγαιον,

TH.456 (Pitiless his disposition) Poseidon the crashing erathg-quaker

TH.457 Ζῆνά τε μητιόεντα, θεῶν πατέρ' ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν,

TH.457 As well, and Zeus the far-planner, father of gods and of men too,

TH.458 τοῦ καὶ ὑπὸ βροντῆς πελεμίζεται εὐρεῖα χθών.

TH.458 Under the force of whose thunder the wide earth shivers in terror.

TH.459 καὶ τοὺς μὲν κατέπινε μέγας Κρόνος, ὥς τις ἕκαστος

TH.459 These every one great Cronos gobbled down whole as they issued

TH.460 νηδύος ἐξ ἱερῆς μητρὸς πρὸς γούναθ' ἵκοιτο,

TH.460 Each from the womb of their sacred mother to sit on her lap, for

TH.461 τὰ φρονέων, ἵνα μή τις ἀγαυῶν *Οὐρανιώνων

TH.461 Thus he intended that no one else of the children of heaven

TH.462 ἄλλος ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἔχοι βασιληΐδα τιμήν.

TH.462 Should wield regal authority ever among the immortals.

TH.463 πεύθετο γὰρ Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος

TH.463 For he had learned from Earth and from star-spangled heaven that he was

TH.464 οὕνεκά οἱ πέπρωτο ἑῷ ὑπὸ παιδὶ δαμῆναι,

TH.464 Doomed to be overcome by his very own son, namely Zeus,

TH.465 καὶ κρατερῷ περ ἐόντι, Διὸς μεγάλου διὰ βουλάς.

TH.465 Strong as he was through the plot of the same, though yet unconceived god

TH.466 τῷ ὅ γ' ἄρ' οὐκ ἀλαοσκοπιὴν ἔχεν, ἀλλὰ δοκεύων

TH.466 On this account he mounted no purblind vigil, but watching

TH.467 παῖδας ἑοὺς κατέπινε: Ῥέην δ' ἔχε πένθος ἄλαστον.

TH.467 Out, he devoured his offsring. Terrible grief possessed Rhea

TH.468 ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ Δί' ἔμελλε θεῶν πατέρ' ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν

TH.468 When she was going to bear Zeus father of men and immortals;

TH.469 τέξεσθαι, τότ' ἔπειτα φίλους λιτάνευε τοκῆας

TH.469 Then she implored her own dear parents, Earth and star-strewn Heaven

TH.470 τοὺς αὐτῆς, Γαῖάν τε καὶ Οὐρανὸν ἀστερόεντα,

TH.470 To help her come up with some plan, how she might give birth in secret

TH.471 μῆτιν συμφράσσασθαι, ὅπως λελάθοιτο τεκοῦσα

TH.471 To her own dear son, and how devious Time might be punished

TH.472 παῖδα φίλον, τείσαιτο δ' ἐρινῦς πατρὸς ἑοῖο

TH.472 For what he'd done to his father and for ingesting his children.

TH.473 παίδων [θ'] οὓς κατέπινε μέγας Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης.

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TH.474 οἱ δὲ θυγατρὶ φίλῃ μάλα μὲν κλύον ἠδ' ἐπίθοντο,

TH.474 Thoroughly they understood and obeyed their favourite daughter.

TH.475 καί οἱ πεφραδέτην, ὅσα περ πέπρωτο γενέσθαι

TH.475 They foretold to her everything that was fated to happen

TH.476 ἀμφὶ Κρόνῳ βασιλῆϊ καὶ υἱέϊ καρτεροθύμῳ:

TH.476 Concerning his majesy Cronos and his strong-minded son Zeus.

TH.477 πέμψαν δ' ἐς Λύκτον, Κρήτης ἐς πίονα δῆμον,

TH.477 They sent Rhea to Lyctos, in the fertile country of Crete.

TH.478 ὁππότ' ἄρ' ὁπλότατον παίδων ἤμελλε τεκέσθαι,

TH.478 When she was ready she gave birth to the last of her children,

TH.479 Ζῆνα μέγαν: τὸν μέν οἱ ἐδέξατο Γαῖα πελώρη

TH.479 Great Zeus, and her Earth-mother took him from Rhea in broad Crete

TH.480 Κρήτῃ ἐν εὐρείῃ τρεφέμεν ἀτιταλλέμεναί τε.

TH.480 To nourish the child and as matrilineal grandmother rear him.

TH.481 ἔνθά μιν ἷκτο φέρουσα θοὴν διὰ νύκτα μέλαιναν,

TH.481 Then came Earth in a hurry transporting the new-born child through the dark night

TH.482 πρώτην ἐς Λύκτον: κρύψεν δέ ἑ χερσὶ λαβοῦσα

TH.482 First into Lyctos, where taking the babe in her arms she concealed him

TH.483 ἄντρῳ ἐν ἠλιβάτῳ, ζαθέης ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης,

TH.483 Deep in a high-roofed cave in the sacred earth in the secretive, hidden

TH.484 Αἰγαίῳ ἐν ὄρει πεπυκασμένῳ ὑλήεντι.

TH.484 Hollows beneath the luxuriant forests that clothe Mt Aegeum.

TH.485 τῷ δὲ σπαργανίσασα μέγαν λίθον ἐγγυάλιξεν

TH.485 But to the earlier Lord of the gods, the scion of Heaven,

TH.486 Οὐρανίδῃ μέγ' ἄνακτι, θεῶν προτέρων βασιλῆϊ.

TH.486 Earth proferred a great big rock that was wrapped up in swaddling

TH.487 τὸν τόθ' ἑλὼν χείρεσσιν ἑὴν ἐσκάτθετο νηδύν,

TH.487 Bands, and he grabbed it and shoved it all the way down in his belly.

TH.488 σχέτλιος, οὐδ' ἐνόησε μετὰ φρεσίν, ὥς οἱ ὀπίσσω

TH.488 Nor did he guess in his heart hat his son, unhurt and unvanquished,

TH.489 ἀντὶ λίθου ἑὸς υἱὸς ἀνίκητος καὶ ἀκηδὴς

TH.489 Had been left in lieu of a stone, and by force and the strength of his hands would

TH.490 λείπεθ', ὅ μιν τάχ' ἔμελλε βίῃ καὶ χερσὶ δαμάσσας

TH.490 Soon subdue him and take all his honours and rule the immorrtals.

TH.491 τιμῆς ἐξελάαν, ὁ δ' ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἀνάξειν.

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TH.492 καρπαλίμως δ' ἄρ' ἔπειτα μένος καὶ φαίδιμα γυῖα

TH.492 Swifty therafter the strength and the glorious limbs of the new and

TH.493 ηὔξετο τοῖο ἄνακτος: ἐπιπλομένου δ' ἐνιαυτοῦ,

TH.493 Future king were augmented and grew. As the years in their passage

TH.494 Γαίης ἐννεσίῃσι πολυφραδέεσσι δολωθείς,

TH.494 Rolled on, great Cronos, whose counsels are crooked, misled by

TH.495 ὃν γόνον ἂψ ἀνέηκε μέγας Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης,

TH.495 Gaia's subtle persuasions, vomited up his own offspring.

TH.496 νικηθεὶς τέχνῃσι βίηφί τε παιδὸς ἑοῖο.

TH.496 But first he brought up the stone which was the last thing he had swallowed--

TH.497 πρῶτον δ' ἐξήμησε λίθον, πύματον καταπίνων:

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TH.498 τὸν μὲν Ζεὺς στήριξε κατὰ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης

TH.498 Zeus erected that stone in the midst of the wide-travelled earth at

TH.499 Πυθοῖ ἐν ἠγαθέῃ, γυάλοις ὕπο Παρνησσοῖο,

TH.499 Pytho, that great, good place, under the bosky glens of Parnassus

TH.500 σῆμ' ἔμεν ἐξοπίσω, θαῦμα θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι.

TH.500 To be a sign thereafter, a marvel to men who are mortal.

TH.501 λῦσε δὲ πατροκασιγνήτους ὀλοῶν ὑπὸ δεσμῶν,

TH.501 Then he unloosed from their grievous bonds all Cronos's brothers,

TH.502 Οὐρανίδας, οὓς δῆσε πατὴρ ἀεσιφροσύνῃσιν:

TH.502 Heaven's descendants, whom Cronos their father had thoughtlessly put down.

TH.503 οἵ οἱ ἀπεμνήσαντο χάριν εὐεργεσιάων,

TH.503 And they rememberd their brother in gratitude for all his kind deeds

TH.504 δῶκαν δὲ βροντὴν ἠδ' αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνὸν

TH.504 And in their gratitude gave him the thunder and dazzling lightning

TH.505 καὶ στεροπήν: τὸ πρὶν δὲ πελώρη Γαῖα κεκεύθει:

TH.505 Bolts which prodigious earth had concealed in her innermost parts. So

TH.506 τοῖς πίσυνος θνητοῖσι καὶ ἀθανάτοισιν ἀνάσσει.

TH.506 Trusting in these dread weapons he reigned over men and immortals.

TH.507 κούρην δ' Ἰαπετὸς καλλίσφυρον Ὠκεανίνην

TH.507 Thereafter Iapetus married Climene beautiful daughter of Ocean,

TH.508 ἠγάγετο Κλυμένην καὶ ὁμὸν λέχος εἰσανέβαινεν.

TH.508 Her of the shapely ankles, and led her up their bedroom.

TH.509 ἡ δέ οἱ Ἄτλαντα κρατερόφρονα γείνατο παῖδα,

TH.509 Climene bore to her husband a stout-hearted son named Atlas.

TH.510 τίκτε δ' ὑπερκύδαντα Μενοίτιον ἠδὲ Προμηθέα,

TH.510 Also she bore him Monoetius, highly respected, as well as

TH.511 ποικίλον αἰολόμητιν, ἁμαρτίνοόν τ' Ἐπιμηθέα:

TH.511 Clever Prometheus, toosharp-witted, and false Epimetheus

TH.512 ὃς κακὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς γένετ' ἀνδράσιν ἀλφηστῇσι:

TH.512 From the beginnng pernicious, an evil to wheat-eating mortals.

TH.513 πρῶτος γάρ ῥα Διὸς πλαστὴν ὑπέδεκτο γυναῖκα

TH.513 He was the first to receive from Zeus the maiden Pandora

TH.514 παρθένον. ὑβριστὴν δὲ Μενοίτιον εὐρύοπα Ζεὺς

TH.514 Whom he had fashioned. But far-sighted Zeus dispatched Monoetius down to

TH.515 εἰς ἔρεβος κατέπεμψε βαλὼν ψολόεντι κεραυνῷ

TH.515 Erebos gateway to Hades, striking him down with a blazing

TH.516 εἵνεκ' ἀτασθαλίης τε καὶ ἠνορέης ὑπερόπλου.

TH.516 Thunderbolt for his unreason and overwhelming presumption.

TH.517 Ἄτλας δ' οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχει κρατερῆς ὑπ' ἀνάγκης,

TH.517 Atlas upholds the broad heavens by force of necessity at the

TH.518 πείρασιν ἐν γαίης πρόπαρ Ἑσπερίδων λιγυφώνων

TH.518 Ends of the earth where he stands near the Hesperides who sing

TH.519 ἑστηώς, κεφαλῇ τε καὶ ἀκαμάτῃσι χέρεσσι:

TH.519 Purely, supporting the sky on his head and his muscular shoulders:

TH.520 ταύτην γάρ οἱ μοῖραν ἐδάσσατο μητίετα Ζεύς.

TH.520 Such was the destiny that wise Zeus decided for Atlas.

TH.521 δῆσε δ' ἀλυκτοπέδῃσι Προμηθέα ποικιλόβουλον,

TH.521 He chained devious, wily Prometheus tightly in chains too

TH.522 δεσμοῖς ἀργαλέοισι, μέσον διὰ κίον' ἐλάσσας:

TH.522 Tough to escape from, terrible bonds, and skewered his middle.

TH.523 καί οἱ ἐπ' αἰετὸν ὦρσε τανύπτερον: αὐτὰρ ὅ γ' ἧπαρ

TH.523 Furthermore on him he set a long-pinioned eagle to eat his

TH.524 ἤσθιεν ἀθάνατον, τὸ δ' ἀέξετο ἶσον ἁπάντῃ

TH.524 Immortal liver, which grew overnight just as much as that bird with

TH.525 νυκτός, ὅσον πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἔδοι τανυσίπτερος ὄρνις.

TH.525 Tapering wings had eaten during the whole day preceding.

TH.526 τὸν μὲν ἄρ' Ἀλκμήνης καλλισφύρου ἄλκιμος υἱὸς

TH.526 This big bird the courageous son of tapering-ankled Alcmene,

TH.527 Ἡρακλέης ἔκτεινε, κακὴν δ' ἀπὸ νοῦσον ἄλαλκεν

TH.527 Heracles, killed, thus freeing Iapetus' son from that evil

TH.528 Ἰαπετιονίδῃ καὶ ἐλύσατο δυσφροσυνάων,

TH.528 Pest; on the spot he releaed him from all his discomfort and torment,

TH.529 οὐκ ἀέκητι Ζηνὸς Ὀλυμπίου ὕψι μέδοντος,

TH.529 With the connivance of paramount Zeus, king of Olympus,

TH.530 ὄφρ' Ἡρακλῆος Θηβαγενέος κλέος εἴη

TH.530 So the renown and repute of Heracles, who was a Theban

TH.531 πλεῖον ἔτ' ἢ τὸ πάροιθεν ἐπὶ χθόνα πουλυβότειραν.

TH.531 Born, might increase even more over the generous earth.

TH.532 ταῦτ' ἄρα ἁζόμενος τίμα ἀριδείκετον υἱόν:

TH.532 Taking account of all this, Zeus honoured his glorious son and,

TH.533 καί περ χωόμενος παύθη χόλου, ὃν πρὶν ἔχεσκεν,

TH.533 Though he was angry indeed, he abated his previous anger

TH.534 οὕνεκ' ἐρίζετο βουλὰς ὑπερμενέϊ Κρονίωνι.

TH.534 Because Prometheus flaunted the counsels of almighty Zeus.

TH.535 καὶ γὰρ ὅτ' ἐκρίνοντο θεοὶ θνητοί τ' ἄνθρωποι

TH.535 Men had distinguished themselves from the gods at Mecone

TH.536 Μηκώνῃ, τότ' ἔπειτα μέγαν βοῦν πρόφρονι θυμῷ

TH.536 Just, when foresightful Prometheus brashly dissected a big ox,

TH.537 δασσάμενος προύθηκε, Διὸς νόον ἐξαπαφίσκων.

TH.537 Dishing up servings to each, and seeking to bamboozle smart Zeus.

TH.538 τῷ μὲν γὰρ σάρκάς τε καὶ ἔγκατα πίονα δημῷ

TH.538 Slyly in front of the others he set flesh, also the innards

TH.539 ἐν ῥινῷ κατέθηκε, καλύψας γαστρὶ βοείῃ,

TH.539 Rich with the juiciest fat near the hide, half-hid by the ox's

TH.540 τοῖς δ' αὖτ' ὀστέα λευκὰ βοὸς δολίῃ ἐπὶ τέχνῃ

TH.540 Belly; to Zeus he served white bones which by artifice and low

TH.541 εὐθετίσας κατέθηκε, καλύψας ἀργέτι δημῷ.

TH.541 Cunnning he dished up disguised in the glistening fat of the bullock.

TH.542 δὴ τότε μιν προσέειπε πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε:

TH.542 Then to Prometheus spoke the father of gods and of mankind:

TH.543 "Ἰαπετιονίδη, πάντων ἀριδείκετ' ἀνάκτων,

TH.543 'Son of Iapetus, most magnifcent of all the princes

TH.544 ὦ πέπον, ὡς ἑτεροζήλως διεδάσσαο μοίρας."

TH.544 See how invidiously, old son, you divided the servings.'

TH.545 ὣς φάτο κερτομέων Ζεὺς ἄφθιτα μήδεα εἰδώς:

TH.545 So said thundering Zeus, everlastingly shrewd and all-knowing.

TH.546 τὸν δ' αὖτε προσέειπε Προμηθεὺς ἀγκυλομήτης,

TH.546 Crookedly scheming Prometheus answered him something as follows;

TH.547 ἦκ' ἐπιμειδήσας, δολίης δ' οὐ λήθετο τέχνης:

TH.547 Slyly he smiled to himself as he thought of his crafty deception.

TH.548 "Ζεῦ κύδιστε μέγιστε θεῶν αἰειγενετάων,

TH.548 'Zeus, most honoured and greatest of gods whose race is forever,

TH.549 τῶν δ' ἕλευ ὁπποτέρην σε ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸς ἀνώγει."

TH.549 Take of the pieces whichever the heart in your bosom inclines to.'

TH.550 φῆ ῥα δολοφρονέων: Ζεὺς δ' ἄφθιτα μήδεα εἰδὼς

TH.550 So he declared as he pondered deceit, but Zeus whose reflections

TH.551 γνῶ ῥ' οὐδ' ἠγνοίησε δόλον: κακὰ δ' ὄσσετο θυμῷ

TH.551 Are indestructible knew and was quick to see through through the deception,

TH.552 θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποισι, τὰ καὶ τελέεσθαι ἔμελλε.

TH.552 And he foresaw in his heart much evil for men which would follow.

TH.553 χερσὶ δ' ὅ γ' ἀμφοτέρῃσιν ἀνείλετο λευκὸν ἄλειφαρ,

TH.553 Taking the white fat up in both hands Zeus grew very angry;

TH.554 χώσατο δὲ φρένας ἀμφί, χόλος δέ μιν ἵκετο θυμόν,

TH.554 Anger possessed his mind the minute he noticed the ox's

TH.555 ὡς ἴδεν ὀστέα λευκὰ βοὸς δολίῃ ἐπὶ τέχνῃ.

TH.555 White bones underneath, and discovered Prometheus crafty deception.

TH.556 ἐκ τοῦ δ' ἀθανάτοισιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ φῦλ' ἀνθρώπων

TH.556 That is the reason the races of men all over the earth burn

TH.557 καίουσ' ὀστέα λευκὰ θυηέντων ἐπὶ βωμῶν.

TH.557 White bones to the blessed immortals on incense-redolent altars.

TH.558 τὸν δὲ μέγ' ὀχθήσας προσέφη νεφεληγερέτα Ζεύς:

TH.558 Then Zeus who gathers the clouds addressed him in bitter vexation,

TH.559 "Ἰαπετιονίδη, πάντων πέρι μήδεα εἰδώς,

TH.559 'Iapetus' son, over all of the others exceedingly smart and

TH.560 ὦ πέπον, οὐκ ἄρα πω δολίης ἐπελήθεο τέχνης."

TH.560 Knowledgeable, old fellow, you haven't forgotten your cunning!'

TH.561 ὣς φάτο χωόμενος Ζεὺς ἄφθιτα μήδεα εἰδώς.

TH.561 This is the reason why Zeus, being angry, whose wisdom is deathless

TH.562 ἐκ τούτου δἤπειτα χόλου μεμνημένος αἰεὶ

TH.562 Did not give inexhaustible fire and its power to the race of

TH.563 οὐκ ἐδίδου μελίῃσι πυρὸς μένος ἀκαμάτοιο

TH.563 Mankind engendered of ash trees who dwell on the face of the earth.

TH.564 θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις οἳ ἐπὶ χθονὶ ναιετάουσιν:

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TH.565 ἀλλά μιν ἐξαπάτησεν ἐῢς πάϊς Ἰαπετοῖο

TH.565 But Prometheus, Iapetus' brave son thoroughly fooled him,

TH.566 κλέψας ἀκαμάτοιο πυρὸς τηλέσκοπον αὐγὴν

TH.566 For he stole inexhaustible fire whose blaze can be seen from

TH.567 ἐν κοίλῳ νάρθηκι: δάκεν δ' ἄρα νειόθι θυμὸν

TH.567 Far off in a hollow cane, which wounded profoundly the mind of

TH.568 Ζῆν' ὑψιβρεμέτην, ἐχόλωσε δέ μιν φίλον ἦτορ,

TH.568 Zeus who thunders aloft, and his fond heart grew very angry

TH.569 ὡς ἴδ' ἐν ἀνθρώποισι πυρὸς τηλέσκοπον αὐγήν.

TH.569 Seeing the twinkle of fire from afar among men who are mortal.

TH.570 αὐτίκα δ' ἀντὶ πυρὸς τεῦξεν κακὸν ἀνθρώποισι:

TH.570 Straightaway Zeus prepared for them evil in place of purloined fire.

TH.571 γαίης γὰρ σύμπλασσε περικλυτὸς Ἀμφιγυήεις

TH.571 Famous Hephaestus the lame god molded of water and earth the

TH.572 παρθένῳ αἰδοίῃ ἴκελον Κρονίδεω διὰ βουλάς:

TH.572 Shape of a shamefast maiden by Zeus's advice and divine will.

TH.573 ζῶσε δὲ καὶ κόσμησε θεὰ γλαυκῶπις Ἀθήνη

TH.573 Then Athena, the grey-eyed goddess clad her and dresssed her

TH.574 ἀργυφέῃ ἐσθῆτι: κατὰ κρῆθεν δὲ καλύπτρην

TH.574 Up in a silvery garment. Down from her head she unveiled a

TH.575 δαιδαλέην χείρεσσι κατέσχεθε, θαῦμα ἰδέσθαι:

TH.575 Finely embroidered veil with her hands, a most marvellous sight; with

TH.576 [ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ στεφάνους νεοθηλέας, ἄνθεα ποίης,

TH.576 Lovely garlands of new-grown wildflowers Pallas Athene

TH.577 ἱμερτοὺς περίθηκε καρήατι Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη:]

TH.577 Crowned her. Also a garland of gold she put on her head which

TH.578 ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ στεφάνην χρυσέην κεφαλῆφιν ἔθηκε,

TH.578 Celebrated Hephaestus the lame one made with his own hands,

TH.579 τὴν αὐτὸς ποίησε περικλυτὸς Ἀμφιγυήεις

TH.579 Artfully fashioning it as a favour to fatherly Zeus.

TH.580 ἀσκήσας παλάμῃσι, χαριζόμενος Διῒ πατρί.

TH.580 On it was wrought much intricate workmanship, wonderful to be

TH.581 τῇ δ' ἔνι δαίδαλα πολλὰ τετεύχατο, θαῦμα ἰδέσθαι,

TH.581 Seen; of the monstrous creatures the sea and the dry land

TH.582 κνώδαλ' ὅσ' ἤπειρος δεινὰ τρέφει ἠδὲ θάλασσα:

TH.582 Nourish, he put many on it--so radiant beauty and splendour

TH.583 τῶν ὅ γε πόλλ' ἐνέθηκε, χάρις δ' ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἄητο,

TH.583 Shone from it--creatures so lifelike one might suppose they had voices.

TH.584 θαυμάσια, ζωοῖσιν ἐοικότα φωνήεσσιν.

TH.584 (blank line)

TH.585 αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ τεῦξε καλὸν κακὸν ἀντ' ἀγαθοῖο,

TH.585 So when Hephaestus had made this beautiful bane in exchange for

TH.586 ἐξάγαγ' ἔνθά περ ἄλλοι ἔσαν θεοὶ ἠδ' ἄνθρωποι,

TH.586 Good, he conducted her to that place where the gods and the men were,

TH.587 κόσμῳ ἀγαλλομένην γλαυκώπιδος ὀβριμοπάτρης:

TH.587 All tricked out by the grey eyed daughter of powerful Zeus.

TH.588 θαῦμα δ' ἔχ' ἀθανάτους τε θεοὺς θνητούς τ' ἀνθρώπους,

TH.588 Wonderment seized the immmortal gods and men who are mortal

TH.589 ὡς εἶδον δόλον αἰπύν, ἀμήχανον ἀνθρώποισιν.

TH.589 When they beheld such a sheer deception and hardship for mankind;

TH.590 ἐκ τῆς γὰρ γένος ἐστὶ γυναικῶν θηλυτεράων,

TH.590 [But from her are descended untold generations of feminine women.]

TH.591 [τῆς γὰρ ὀλοίιόν ἐστι γένος καὶ φῦλα γυναικῶν,]

TH.591 But from her you may trace the descent of the pestilent races of women

TH.592 πῆμα μέγα θνητοῖσι, σὺν ἀνδράσι ναιετάουσαι,

TH.592 Who dwell with and among mortal men and occasion them plenty of trouble,

TH.593 οὐλομένης Πενίης οὐ σύμφοροι, ἀλλὰ Κόροιο.

TH.593 Bearing with us in prosperity, never in miserable hardship.

TH.594 ὡς δ' ὁπότ' ἐν σμήνεσσι κατηρεφέεσσι μέλισσαι

TH.594 Likewise in beetling beehives bees feed mischievous drones, for

TH.595 κηφῆνας βόσκωσι, κακῶν ξυνήονας ἔργων:

TH.595 Daily and all day long until sundown while honeybees labour

TH.596 αἱ μέν τε πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα

TH.596 Building the white wax honeycombs, drones on the other hand stay at

TH.597 ἠμάτιαι σπεύδουσι τιθεῖσί τε κηρία λευκά,

TH.597 Home in the sheltering hive and gobble the labour of others.

TH.598 οἱ δ' ἔντοσθε μένοντες ἐπηρεφέας κατὰ σίμβλους

TH.598 (blank line)

TH.599 ἀλλότριον κάματον σφετέρην ἐς γαστέρ' ἀμῶνται:

TH.599 (blank line)

TH.600 ὣς δ' αὔτως ἄνδρεσσι κακὸν θνητοῖσι γυναῖκας

TH.600 Similarly did Zeus who thunders aloft create women

TH.601 Ζεὺς ὑψιβρεμέτης θῆκε, ξυνήονας ἔργων

TH.601 Bad for mankind, in cahoots in all manner of tiresome mischief.

TH.602 ἀργαλέων. ἕτερον δὲ πόρεν κακὸν ἀντ' ἀγαθοῖο,

TH.602 And he provided another bad thing in exhange for that good thing.

TH.603 ὅς κε γάμον φεύγων καὶ μέρμερα ἔργα γυναικῶν

TH.603 He who, to avoid getting wed and the vexing behaviour of women,

TH.604 μὴ γῆμαι ἐθέλῃ, ὀλοὸν δ' ἐπὶ γῆρας ἵκηται

TH.604 Doesn't desire marriage and arrives at lamentable old age,

TH.605 χήτει γηροκόμοιο: ὁ δ' οὐ βιότου γ' ἐπιδευὴς

TH.605 Lacks anybody to tend to him when he is old, and though wanting

TH.606 ζώει, ἀποφθιμένου δὲ διὰ ζωὴν δατέονται

TH.606 Nothing to live on when he's alive, at his death his relations,

TH.607 χηρωσταί. ᾧ δ' αὖτε γάμου μετὰ μοῖρα γένηται,

TH.607 Heirs to a vacant estate, will divy his substance among them.

TH.608 κεδνὴν δ' ἔσχεν ἄκοιτιν, ἀρηρυῖαν πραπίδεσσι,

TH.608 Yet on the other hand for one who choses the chances of marriage,

TH.609 τῷ δέ τ' ἀπ' αἰῶνος κακὸν ἐσθλῷ ἀντιφερίζει

TH.609 To have and to hold a respectable wife in accord with his wishes

TH.610 ἐμμενές: ὃς δέ κε τέτμῃ ἀταρτηροῖο γενέθλης,

TH.610 From the beginning and of of their days, good squabbles with bad; but

TH.611 ζώει ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἔχων ἀλίαστον ἀνίην

TH.611 Any who finds a malevolent spouse will certainly lead a

TH.612 θυμῷ καὶ κραδίῃ, καὶ ἀνήκεστον κακόν ἐστιν.

TH.612 Life of incessant heart-ache: that's an incurable evil.

TH.613 ὣς οὐκ ἔστι Διὸς κλέψαι νόον οὐδὲ παρελθεῖν.

TH.613 Thus it is possible neither to fool Zeus nor circumvent his

TH.614 οὐδὲ γὰρ Ἰαπετιονίδης ἀκάκητα Προμηθεὺς

TH.614 Wits, for not even Prometheus, Iapetus' son, although clever,

TH.615 τοῖό γ' ὑπεξήλυξε βαρὺν χόλον, ἀλλ' ὑπ' ἀνάγκης

TH.615 Could quite get himself out from the yoke of his heavy displeasure

TH.616 καὶ πολύϊδριν ἐόντα μέγας κατὰ δεσμὸς ἐρύκει.

TH.616 But necessarily, smart though he was, strong bondage repressed him.

TH.617 Ὀβριάρεῳ δ' ὡς πρῶτα πατὴρ ὠδύσσατο θυμῷ

TH.617 (blank line)

TH.618 Κόττῳ τ' ἠδὲ Γύγῃ, δῆσε κρατερῷ ἐνὶ δεσμῷ,

TH.618 Cottus and Gyges, he bound them in strong, irrefrangible bondage,

TH.619 ἠνορέην ὑπέροπλον ἀγώμενος ἠδὲ καὶ εἶδος

TH.619 Being resentful at heart of their mettlesome manliness, beauty,

TH.620 καὶ μέγεθος: κατένασσε δ' ὑπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης.

TH.620 Also their great size, Uranus banished them under the broad earth;

TH.621 ἔνθ' οἵ γ' ἄλγε' ἔχοντες ὑπὸ χθονὶ ναιετάοντες

TH.621 There underground they abode in much torment, discomfort and anguish,

TH.622 εἵατ' ἐπ' ἐσχατιῇ μεγάλης ἐν πείρασι γαίης

TH.622 Stuck at the ends of the earth, at the ultimate limits of great earth,

TH.623 δηθὰ μάλ' ἀχνύμενοι, κραδίῃ μέγα πένθος ἔχοντες.

TH.623 Bitter at heart for a long while, suffering grievous affliction.

TH.624 ἀλλά σφεας Κρονίδης τε καὶ ἀθάνατοι θεοὶ ἄλλοι

TH.624 These did the offspring of Cronos as well as the other immortal

TH.625 οὓς τέκεν ἠΰκομος Ῥείη Κρόνου ἐν φιλότητι

TH.625 Gods whom Rhea the well-coiffed bore in conjunction with Cronos

TH.626 Γαίης φραδμοσύνῃσιν ἀνήγαγον ἐς φάος αὖτις:

TH.626 Bring up again again into daylight at the advisement of Earth, for

TH.627 αὐτὴ γάρ σφιν ἅπαντα διηνεκέως κατέλεξε,

TH.627 She explained everything throughly to them, how with the help of

TH.628 σὺν κείνοις νίκην τε καὶ ἀγλαὸν εὖχος ἀρέσθαι.

TH.628 Uranus' sons they would win bright victory such as they prayed for.

TH.629 δηρὸν γὰρ μάρναντο πόνον θυμαλγέ' ἔχοντες

TH.629 For the Titanic immortals and those begotten by Cronos

TH.631 ἀντίον ἀλλήλοισι διὰ κρατερὰς ὑσμίνας

TH.630 Long had been struggling against each other in fierce internecine

TH.630 Τιτῆνές τε θεοὶ καὶ ὅσοι Κρόνου ἐξεγένοντο,

TH.631 Combat, exerting themselves together in heart-wrenching effort,

TH.632 οἱ μὲν ἀφ' ὑψηλῆς Ὄθρυος Τιτῆνες ἀγαυοί,

TH.632 On one side the illustrious Titans from lofty Mount Othrys

TH.633 οἱ δ' ἄρ' ἀπ' Οὐλύμποιο θεοὶ δωτῆρες ἐάων

TH.633 And on the other the gods from Olympus, the givers of good things,

TH.634 οὓς τέκεν ἠΰκομος Ῥείη Κρόνῳ εὐνηθεῖσα.

TH.634 Those whom Rhea the fair-haired bore after sleeping with Cronos.

TH.635 οἵ ῥα τότ' ἀλλήλοισι μάχην θυμαλγέ' ἔχοντες

TH.635 So at that time they were fighting continually with each other

TH.636 συνεχέως ἐμάχοντο δέκα πλείους ἐνιαυτούς:

TH.636 Ten full years as they nursed in their guts indigestible anger,

TH.637 οὐδέ τις ἦν ἔριδος χαλεπῆς λύσις οὐδὲ τελευτὴ

TH.637 Nor was there any solution or end to the difficult conflict

TH.638 οὐδετέροις, ἶσον δὲ τέλος τέτατο πτολέμοιο.

TH.638 For either side, but the outcome of battle was equally balanced.

TH.639 ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ κείνοισι παρέσχεθεν ἄρμενα πάντα,

TH.639 But when Zeus in the meanwhile had furnished his monsters wih all things

TH.640 νέκταρ τ' ἀμβροσίην τε, τά περ θεοὶ αὐτοὶ ἔδουσι,

TH.640 Suitable, nectar as well as ambrosia, foods that the gods eat,

TH.641 πάντων τ' ἐν στήθεσσιν ἀέξετο θυμὸς ἀγήνωρ,

TH.641 Then did the manly spirit of all of them swell in their bosoms.

TH.642 [ὡς νέκταρ τ' ἐπάσαντο καὶ ἀμβροσίην ἐρατεινήν,]

TH.642 When they eaten their fill of delicious ambrosia and of

TH.643 δὴ τότε τοῖς μετέειπε πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε:

TH.643 Nectar, then Zeus the begetter of gods and of men thus addressed them:

TH.644 "κέκλυτέ μευ Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀγλαὰ τέκνα,

TH.644 'Listen to me, you glorious children of Earth and of Heaven,

TH.645 ὄφρ' εἴπω τά με θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι κελεύει.

TH.645 So I may say those things that the heart in my bosom commands me.

TH.646 ἤδη γὰρ μάλα δηρὸν ἐναντίοι ἀλλήλοισι

TH.646 Every day for a long time now have we offspring of Cronos

TH.647 νίκης καὶ κάρτευς πέρι μαρνάμεθ' ἤματα πάντα,

TH.647 Vied with the Titans for power and victory, fighting each other.

TH.648 Τιτῆνές τε θεοὶ καὶ ὅσοι Κρόνου ἐκγενόμεσθα.

TH.648 (blank line)

TH.649 ὑμεῖς δὲ μεγάλην τε βίην καὶ χεῖρας ἀάπτους

TH.649 You, for your own part, shew your immense strength and resistless

TH.650 φαίνετε Τιτήνεσσιν ἐναντίον ἐν δαῒ λυγρῇ,

TH.650 Arms in opposing the Titans in bitter, lugubrious battle

TH.651 μνησάμενοι φιλότητος ἐνηέος, ὅσσα παθόντες

TH.651 Mindful of all our considerate kindness: haven't you come back

TH.652 ἐς φάος ἂψ ἀφίκεσθε δυσηλεγέος ὑπὸ δεσμοῦ

TH.652 Up to the light after what you endured in uncomfortable bondage

TH.653 ἡμετέρας διὰ βουλὰς ὑπὸ ζόφου ἠερόεντος."

TH.653 Under the mist-filled darkness, all through our inscrutable plans.'

TH.654 ὣς φάτο: τὸν δ' αἶψ' αὖτις ἀμείβετο Κόττος ἀμύμων:

TH.654 So he declared and in answer excellent Cottus responded.

TH.655 "δαιμόνι', οὐκ ἀδάητα πιφαύσκεαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ

TH.655 'Sir, you reveal to us nothing we aren't aware of already.

TH.656 ἴδμεν ὅ τοι περὶ μὲν πραπίδες, περὶ δ' ἐστὶ νόημα,

TH.656 Well do we know your intelligence, also your high understanding;

TH.657 ἀλκτὴρ δ' ἀθανάτοισιν ἀρῆς γένεο κρυεροῖο,

TH.657 You have become the defender of all the immortals from cold war.

TH.658 σῇσι δ' ἐπιφροσύνῃσιν ὑπὸ ζόφου ἠερόεντος

TH.658 For it is thanks to your thoughtfulness we have returned back again from

TH.659 ἄψορρον ἐξαῦτις ἀμειλίκτων ὑπὸ δεσμῶν

TH.659 Outof the mist-filled darkness and out of our merciless bondage,

TH.660 ἠλύθομεν, Κρόνου υἱὲ ἄναξ, ἀνάελπτα παθόντες.

TH.660 Having experienced things unhoped for, O lord, son of Cronos!

TH.661 τῷ καὶ νῦν ἀτενεῖ τε νόῳ καὶ πρόφρονι θυμῷ

TH.661 So with inflexible purpose and after considerate planning

TH.662 ῥυσόμεθα κράτος ὑμὸν ἐν αἰνῇ δηϊοτῆτι,

TH.662 We shall assist your all-powerful might in this terrible battle,

TH.663 μαρνάμενοι Τιτῆσιν ἀνὰ κρατερὰς ὑσμίνας."

TH.663 Struggling against all those Titans in strong-armed personal duels.'

TH.664 ὣς φάτ': ἐπῄνησαν δὲ θεοὶ δωτῆρες ἐάων

TH.664 That was his speech, and the deities, givers of bounty, commended

TH.665 μῦθον ἀκούσαντες: πολέμου δ' ἐλιλαίετο θυμὸς

TH.665 What he had said when they'd heard him. Their spirit was keener for warfare

TH.666 μᾶλλον ἔτ' ἢ τὸ πάροιθε: μάχην δ' ἀμέγαρτον ἔγειραν

TH.666 Than in the past, and they roused themselves up to regrettable battle

TH.667 πάντες, θήλειαί τε καὶ ἄρσενες, ἤματι κείνῳ,

TH.667 That very day, every one of them, females and males all together,

TH.668 Τιτῆνές τε θεοὶ καὶ ὅσοι Κρόνου ἐξεγένοντο,

TH.668 Both all the gods called Titans and those who descended from Cronos,

TH.669 οὕς τε Ζεὺς Ἐρέβεσφιν ὑπὸ χθονὸς ἧκε φόωσδε,

TH.669 Also the monsters whom Zeus brought up to the light from Erebos

TH.670 δεινοί τε κρατεροί τε, βίην ὑπέροπλον ἔχοντες.

TH.670 Under the earth, fierce, fearsome and strong, irrresistibly well-armed,

TH.671 τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπ' ὤμων ἀΐσσοντο

TH.671 For from the shoulders of all of them equally sprouted a hundred

TH.672 πᾶσιν ὁμῶς, κεφαλαὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ πεντήκοντα

TH.672 Hands; from the shoulders of each of these creatures as well grew fifty

TH.673 ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν.

TH.673 Heads in a similar manner on top of their powerful bodies.

TH.674 οἳ τότε Τιτήνεσσι κατέσταθεν ἐν δαῒ λυγρῇ

TH.674 These as they stood up against the Titans in tedious face-off

TH.675 πέτρας ἠλιβάτους στιβαρῇς ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντες:

TH.675 Grasped in their powerful hands unwieldy, precipitous boulders,

TH.676 Τιτῆνες δ' ἑτέρωθεν ἐκαρτύναντο φάλαγγας

TH.676 And on the other hand meanwhile the Titans in zeal reinforced their

TH.677 προφρονέως: χειρῶν τε βίης θ' ἅμα ἔργον ἔφαινον

TH.677 Ranks, so both the opponents displayed their physical strength and

TH.678 ἀμφότεροι, δεινὸν δὲ περίαχε πόντος ἀπείρων,

TH.678 Manual labour. The limitless ocean resounded about them,

TH.679 γῆ δὲ μέγ' ἐσμαράγησεν, ἐπέστενε δ' οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς

TH.679 And earth crashed in a spasm, the wide sky groaned and was shaken,

TH.680 σειόμενος, πεδόθεν δὲ τινάσσετο μακρὸς Ὄλυμπος

TH.680 Even the heights of Olympus quaked to their very foundations

TH.681 ῥιπῇ ὕπ' ἀθανάτων, ἔνοσις δ' ἵκανε βαρεῖα

TH.681 Under the force of the charge of the deathless immortals, the heavy

TH.682 τάρταρον ἠερόεντα ποδῶν, αἰπεῖά τ' ἰωὴ

TH.682 Shock of whose trampling feet reached even to Tartarus, with the

TH.683 ἀσπέτου ἰωχμοῖο βολάων τε κρατεράων.

TH.683 High thrilling cries of unspeakable onslaught and clanging of hard blows

TH.684 ὣς ἄρ' ἐπ' ἀλλήλοις ἵεσαν βέλεα στονόεντα:

TH.684 As they hurled at each other their grievous, lamentable missiles.

TH.685 φωνὴ δ' ἀμφοτέρων ἵκετ' οὐρανὸν ἀστερόεντα

TH.685 Then did the noise of their voices when shouting arise to the starry

TH.686 κεκλομένων: οἱ δὲ ξύνισαν μεγάλῳ ἀλαλητῷ.

TH.686 Heavens; they rushed all together with battle-cries loudly resounding.

TH.687 οὐδ' ἄρ' ἔτι Ζεὺς ἴσχεν ἑὸν μένος, ἀλλά νυ τοῦ γε

TH.687 Neither did Zeus restrain any longer his strength, but his mind now

TH.688 εἶθαρ μὲν μένεος πλῆντο φρένες, ἐκ δέ τε πᾶσαν

TH.688 Forthwith was filled with the sense of his might, and he showed forth his power,

TH.689 φαῖνε βίην: ἄμυδις δ' ἄρ' ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ ἠδ' ἀπ' Ὀλύμπου

TH.689 All of it, all at one time; from Olympus as well as from heaven,

TH.690 ἀστράπτων ἔστειχε συνωχαδόν, οἱ δὲ κεραυνοὶ

TH.690 Constantly hurling his lightning, he strode along so that the thunder

TH.691 ἴκταρ ἅμα βροντῇ τε καὶ ἀστεροπῇ ποτέοντο

TH.691 Bolts flew thick and fast from his muscular hand, intermingled

TH.692 χειρὸς ἄπο στιβαρῆς, ἱερὴν φλόγα εἰλυφόωντες,

TH.692 Thunder and lightning together, both whirling around in a sacred

TH.693 ταρφέες: ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖα φερέσβιος ἐσμαράγιζε

TH.693 Burning; the life-giving earth shook on all sides as it kindled

TH.694 καιομένη, λάκε δ' ἀμφὶ περὶ μεγάλ' ἄσπετος ὕλη:

TH.694 Ablaze, and the huge wood rattled and crashed in the great fire;

TH.695 ἔζεε δὲ χθὼν πᾶσα καὶ Ὠκεανοῖο ῥέεθρα

TH.695 All of the land boiled over as well as the waters of Ocean

TH.696 πόντός τ' ἀτρύγετος: τοὺς δ' ἄμφεπε θερμὸς ἀϋτμὴ

TH.696 And the unharvested sea. Hot vapours enveloped the earth-born

TH.697 Τιτῆνας χθονίους, φλὸξ δ' αἰθέρα δῖαν ἵκανεν

TH.697 Titans; unchecked combustion invaded the radiant upper

TH.698 ἄσπετος, ὄσσε δ' ἄμερδε καὶ ἰφθίμων περ ἐόντων

TH.698 Air, and the brilliant and glittering glare of the thunder and lightning

TH.699 αὐγὴ μαρμαίρουσα κεραυνοῦ τε στεροπῆς τε.

TH.699 Dazzled them, strong though they were, temporarily blinding their eyes.

TH.700 καῦμα δὲ θεσπέσιον κάτεχεν χάος: εἴσατο δ' ἄντα

TH.700 Then the miraculous fiery heat reached down into Chaos:

TH.701 ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδεῖν ἠδ' οὔασιν ὄσσαν ἀκοῦσαι

TH.701 It was as if as one watched with his eyes and heard with his ears the

TH.702 αὔτως, ὡς ὅτε γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθε

TH.702 Earth and the heavens above it collapsed on top of each other:

TH.703 πίλνατο: τοῖος γάρ κε μέγας ὑπὸ δοῦπος ὀρώρει,

TH.703 Such the great thud that would rise if the heavens were falling and from the

TH.704 τῆς μὲν ἐρειπομένης, τοῦ δ' ὑψόθεν ἐξεριπόντος:

TH.704 Earth that it fell on as came from of the strife of the gods in collision.

TH.705 τόσσος δοῦπος ἔγεντο θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνιόντων.

TH.705 (blank line)

TH.706 σὺν δ' ἄνεμοι ἔνοσίν τε κονίην τ' ἐσφαράγιζον

TH.706 With this the winds brought gravelly earthquake and stifling wind-storm,

TH.707 βροντήν τε στεροπήν τε καὶ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνόν,

TH.707 Thunder and lightning and also the glistening thunder-bolt, weapons

TH.708 κῆλα Διὸς μεγάλοιο, φέρον δ' ἰαχήν τ' ἐνοπήν τε

TH.708 Of great Zeus, as they carried the noise and the shouts of the battle

TH.709 ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέρων: ὄτοβος δ' ἄπλητος ὀρώρει

TH.709 Into the midst of both camps. A gargantuan racket arose of

TH.710 σμερδαλέης ἔριδος, κάρτευς δ' ἀνεφαίνετο ἔργον.

TH.710 Terrible strife, and the strength of their bellicose arms was apparent

TH.711 ἐκλίνθη δὲ μάχη: πρὶν δ' ἀλλήλοις ἐπέχοντες

TH.711 Even as fighting declined; but before that they held one another

TH.712 ἐμμενέως ἐμάχοντο διὰ κρατερὰς ὑσμίνας.

TH.712 Off as they fought without ceasing in vigorous, fierce single combats.

TH.713 οἱ δ' ἄρ' ἐνὶ πρώτοισι μάχην δριμεῖαν ἔγειραν,

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TH.714 Κόττος τε Βριάρεώς τε Γύγης τ' ἄατος πολέμοιο:

TH.714 Then Briareus and Cottus and Gyges, unwearied wih battle,

TH.715 οἵ ῥα τριηκοσίας πέτρας στιβαρέων ἀπὸ χειρῶν

TH.715 First in the forefront engaged in insatiate, bitterest fighting,

TH.716 πέμπον ἐπασσυτέρας, κατὰ δ' ἐσκίασαν βελέεσσι

TH.716 Sending one after another three hundred rocks from their strong hands

TH.717 Τιτῆνας: καὶ τοὺς μὲν ὑπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης

TH.717 To overshadow the Titans with misssiles. They sent them beneath the

TH.718 πέμψαν καὶ δεσμοῖσιν ἐν ἀργαλέοισιν ἔδησαν,

TH.718 Widely trod earth, and they bound them with troublesome bonds, having conquered

TH.719 νικήσαντες χερσὶν ὑπερθύμους περ ἐόντας,

TH.719 Them with their hands in despite of the Titans' arrogant spirit,

TH.720 τόσσον ἔνερθ' ὑπὸ γῆς ὅσον οὐρανός ἐστ' ἀπὸ γαίης:

TH.720 Under the earth just as far as the heavens are over the earth, for

TH.721 τόσσον γάρ τ' ἀπὸ γῆς ἐς τάρταρον ἠερόεντα.

TH.721 Such is the distance from earth into nebulous Tartarus. A bronze

TH.722 ἐννέα γὰρ νύκτας τε καὶ ἤματα χάλκεος ἄκμων

TH.722 Anvil that fell from the sky for nine nights and nine days on the tenth would

TH.723 οὐρανόθεν κατιών, δεκάτῃ κ' ἐς γαῖαν ἵκοιτο:

TH.723 (blank line)

TH.723A [ἶσον δ' αὖτ' ἀπὸ γῆς ἐς τάρταρον ἠερόεντα:]

TH.724 (blank line)

TH.724 ἐννέα δ' αὖ νύκτας τε καὶ ἤματα χάλκεος ἄκμων

TH.725 Come to the earth, and once more a bronze anvil that fell from the earth to

TH.725 ἐκ γαίης κατιών, δεκάτῃ κ' ἐς τάρταρον ἵκοι.

TH.726 Tartarus for nine nights and nine days would arrive on the tenth day.

TH.726 τὸν πέρι χάλκεον ἕρκος ἐλήλαται: ἀμφὶ δέ μιν νὺξ

TH.727 All about Tartarus marches a bronze palisade, and around the

TH.727 τριστοιχὶ κέχυται περὶ δειρήν: αὐτὰρ ὕπερθε

TH.728 Neck of it night extends in triple-fold layers; above it

TH.728 γῆς ῥίζαι πεφύασι καὶ ἀτρυγέτοιο θαλάσσης.

TH.729 Flourish the roots of the earth and the sea which forever is fallow.

TH.729 ἔνθα θεοὶ Τιτῆνες ὑπὸ ζόφῳ ἠερόεντι

TH.729 There the Titanic divinities under that nebulous darkness

TH.730 κεκρύφαται βουλῇσι Διὸς νεφεληγερέταο,

TH.731 Welter concealed in a place that is foul at the ends of the huge earth

TH.731 χώρῳ ἐν εὐρώεντι, πελώρης ἔσχατα γαίης.

TH.731 All through the far-sighted plans of Zeus who marshalls the storm-clouds.

TH.732 τοῖς οὐκ ἐξιτόν ἐστι, θύρας δ' ἐπέθηκε Ποσειδέων

TH.733 There is no exit for them, for Poseidon has fitted there doors of

TH.733 χαλκείας, τεῖχος δ' ἐπελήλαται ἀμφοτέρωθεν.

TH.734 Bronze, and a wall which extends all along on both sides of the doorway.

TH.734 [ἔνθα Γύγης Κόττος τε καὶ Ὀβριάρεως μεγάθυμος

TH.735 Also magnanimous Obriareus and Cottus and Gyges

TH.735 ναίουσιν, φύλακες πιστοὶ Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο.

TH.736 Live there, the trusty defenders of Zeus who is lord of the aegis.

TH.736 ἔνθα δὲ γῆς δνοφερῆς καὶ ταρτάρου ἠερόεντος

TH.737 There in a row all in order the ultimate sources and limits

TH.737 πόντου τ' ἀτρυγέτοιο καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος

TH.738 Are of the darkling earth and of nebulous Tartarus also

TH.738 ἑξείης πάντων πηγαὶ καὶ πείρατ' ἔασιν,

TH.739 Of the unharvested sea as well as the star-studded heavens,

TH.739 ἀργαλέ' εὐρώεντα, τά τε στυγέουσι θεοί περ:

TH.740 Loathsome, malodorous, foul, and indeed the immortals detest them.

TH.740 χάσμα μέγ', οὐδέ κε πάντα τελεσφόρον εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν

TH.741 Vast is that chasm, and nobody could, if a year were ompleted,

TH.741 οὖδας ἵκοιτ', εἰ πρῶτα πυλέων ἔντοσθε γένοιτο,

TH.742 Get through it all after first having entered its gateway, for cruel

TH.742 ἀλλά κεν ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα φέροι πρὸ θύελλα θυέλλης

TH.743 Wind upon wind would transort him cruelly hither and thither.

TH.743 ἀργαλέη: δεινὸν δὲ καὶ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι.]

TH.744 This is a fearful and marvellous thing to the deities even.

TH.744 [τοῦτο τέρας: καὶ Νυκτὸς ἐρεμνῆς οἰκία δεινὰ

TH.745 There stand the awful home of black Night enveloped in blue clouds.

TH.745 ἕστηκεν νεφέλῃς κεκαλυμμένα κυανέῃσι.]

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TH.746 τῶν πρόσθ' Ἰαπετοῖο πάϊς ἔχει οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν

TH.747 Standing in front of its doorway the son of Iapetus, Atlas

TH.747 ἑστηὼς κεφαλῇ τε καὶ ἀκαμάτῃσι χέρεσσιν

TH.748 Holds on his head and his hands unfatigued and immobile the wide sky

TH.748 ἀστεμφέως, ὅθι Νύξ τε καὶ Ἡμέρη ἆσσον ἰοῦσαι

TH.749 Even where Night and Day as they pass one another salute each

TH.749 ἀλλήλας προσέειπον ἀμειβόμεναι μέγαν οὐδὸν

TH.750 Other on crossing the great bronze threshold; while one is descending

TH.750 χάλκεον: ἡ μὲν ἔσω καταβήσεται, ἡ δὲ θύραζε

TH.751 Into their dwelling, the other is going abroad through the doorway,

TH.751 ἔρχεται, οὐδέ ποτ' ἀμφοτέρας δόμος ἐντὸς ἐέργει,

TH.752 Nor does that mansion at any one time entertain them together.

TH.752 ἀλλ' αἰεὶ ἑτέρη γε δόμων ἔκτοσθεν ἐοῦσα

TH.753 One of them always is out of the house as she passes above the

TH.753 γαῖαν ἐπιστρέφεται, ἡ δ' αὖ δόμου ἐντὸς ἐοῦσα

TH.754 Earth while the oher abides in the home where she stays to await the

TH.754 μίμνει τὴν αὐτῆς ὥρην ὁδοῦ, ἔστ' ἂν ἵκηται:

TH.755 Hour of departure, whenever it comes; and when one of them holds the

TH.755 ἡ μὲν ἐπιχθονίοισι φάος πολυδερκὲς ἔχουσα,

TH.756 Light that illumines all people who dwell on the earth, the

TH.756 ἡ δ' Ὕπνον μετὰ χερσί, κασίγνητον Θανάτοιο,

TH.757 Other, lamentable Night, enveloped in nebulous darkness,

TH.757 Νὺξ ὀλοή, νεφέλῃ κεκαλυμμένη ἠεροειδεῖ.

TH.758 Holds in mysterious arms Sleep which is brother to Death.

TH.758 ἔνθα δὲ Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἐρεμνῆς οἰκί' ἔχουσιν,

TH.759 That is the place where the children of black Night have their apartments,

TH.759 Ὕπνος καὶ Θάνατος, δεινοὶ θεοί: οὐδέ ποτ' αὐτοὺς

TH.760 Namely Sleep and Death, who are awful divinities, and the

TH.760 Ἠέλιος φαέθων ἐπιδέρκεται ἀκτίνεσσιν

TH.761 Radiant sun never gazes upon them with glittering sunbeams

TH.761 οὐρανὸν εἰσανιὼν οὐδ' οὐρανόθεν καταβαίνων.

TH.762 As he ascends into heaven and as he descends from the heavens;

TH.762 τῶν ἕτερος μὲν γῆν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης

TH.763 Of these the former meanders aross the wide-earth and the broadbacked

TH.763 ἥσυχος ἀνστρέφεται καὶ μείλιχος ἀνθρώποισι,

TH.764 Sea, and is peaceful and pleasant to men, but the other one's heart is

TH.764 τοῦ δὲ σιδηρέη μὲν κραδίη, χάλκεον δέ οἱ ἦτορ

TH.765 Iron, his character pitiless, harder than bronze, for whichever

TH.765 νηλεὲς ἐν στήθεσσιν: ἔχει δ' ὃν πρῶτα λάβῃσιν

TH.766 Human he catches he grasps, and he's hateful to all the immortals.

TH.766 ἀνθρώπων: ἐχθρὸς δὲ καὶ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν.

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TH.767 ἔνθα θεοῦ χθονίου πρόσθεν δόμοι ἠχήεντες

TH.768 Futhermore there the reverberant halls of the god of the nether

TH.768 [ἰφθίμου τ' Ἀΐδεω καὶ ἐπαινῆς Περσεφονείης]

TH.769 World, strong, powerful Hades and dreadful Persephone his queen

TH.769 ἑστᾶσιν, δεινὸς δὲ κύων προπάροιθε φυλάσσει,

TH.770 Stand, and a fearful and pitiless watch-dog guards them in front, and

TH.770 νηλειής, τέχνην δὲ κακὴν ἔχει: ἐς μὲν ἰόντας

TH.771 He has a wicked trick, for he fawns with his tail and his ears on

TH.771 σαίνει ὁμῶς οὐρῇ τε καὶ οὔασιν ἀμφοτέροισιν,

TH.772 Those going in, but he doesn't permit anybody to go out.

TH.772 ἐξελθεῖν δ' οὐκ αὖτις ἐᾷ πάλιν, ἀλλὰ δοκεύων

TH.773 Watching, he catches and eats anyone going out by the gateway.

TH.773 ἐσθίει, ὅν κε λάβῃσι πυλέων ἔκτοσθεν ἰόντα.

TH.774 (blank line)

TH.774 [ἰφθίμου τ' Ἀΐδεω καὶ ἐπαινῆς Περσεφονείης]

TH.775 (blank line)

TH.775 ἔνθα δὲ ναιετάει στυγερὴ θεὸς ἀθανάτοισι,

TH.776 There is the dwelling as well of the goddess abhorred by immortals,

TH.776 δεινὴ Στύξ, θυγάτηρ ἀψορρόου Ὠκεανοῖο

TH.777 Terrible Styx, the most senior daughter of retrograde Ocean.

TH.777 πρεσβυτάτη: νόσφιν δὲ θεῶν κλυτὰ δώματα ναίει

TH.778 Far from the gods she inhabitis a glorious house overhung by

TH.778 μακρῇσιν πέτρῃσι κατηρεφέ': ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντῃ

TH.779 Sizeable rocks, and with silvery columns surrounding it all it

TH.779 κίοσιν ἀργυρέοισι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται.

TH.780 Rises right up to the sky. All too seldom the daughter of Thaumas,

TH.780 παῦρα δὲ Θαύμαντος θυγάτηρ πόδας ὠκέα Ἶρις

TH.781 Swift-footed Iris traverses the broad-backced sea to deliver

TH.781 ἀγγελίη πωλεῖται ἐπ' εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης.

TH.782 (blank line)

TH.782 ὁππότ' ἔρις καὶ νεῖκος ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ὄρηται,

TH.783 There any message. However when discord and quarrels among the

TH.783 καί ῥ' ὅστις ψεύδηται Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἐχόντων,

TH.784 (blank line)

TH.784 Ζεὺς δέ τε Ἶριν ἔπεμψε θεῶν μέγαν ὅρκον ἐνεῖκαι

TH.785 Deathless are stirred up, Zeus sends Iris to fetch in a golden

TH.785 τηλόθεν ἐν χρυσέῃ προχόῳ πολυώνυμον ὕδωρ,

TH.786 Pitcher the gods' great oath from afar, the notorious chilly

TH.786 ψυχρόν, ὅ τ' ἐκ πέτρης καταλείβεται ἠλιβάτοιο

TH.787 Stygian water that trickles down from precipitous heights.

TH.787 ὑψηλῆς: πολλὸν δὲ ὑπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης

TH.788 Flowing a long way under the wide-travelled earth from the sacred

TH.788 ἐξ ἱεροῦ ποταμοῖο ῥέει διὰ νύκτα μέλαιναν:

TH.789 River a branch of the Ocean cascades through the blackness of night. A

TH.789 Ὠκεανοῖο κέρας, δεκάτη δ' ἐπὶ μοῖρα δέδασται:

TH.790 Tenth of the waters of Ocean belong the Styx as her birthright.

TH.790 ἐννέα μὲν περὶ γῆν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης

TH.791 Swirling in nine silver eddies the stream that encircles the earth and

TH.791 δίνῃς ἀργυρέῃς εἱλιγμένος εἰς ἅλα πίπτει,

TH.792 Broad-backed sea falls into the briny, but this one alone which

TH.792 ἡ δὲ μί' ἐκ πέτρης προρέει, μέγα πῆμα θεοῖσιν.

TH.793 Springs from a rock in the sight of the gods is a major misfortune.

TH.793 ὅς κεν τὴν ἐπίορκον ἀπολλείψας ἐπομόσσῃ

TH.794 One of the gods who inhabit the snow-covered peaks of Olympus,

TH.794 ἀθανάτων οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου,

TH.795 When he has poured a libation to Styx, if he perjures himself, lies

TH.795 κεῖται νήϋτμος τετελεσμένον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν:

TH.796 Breathless and doesn't draw breath till the whole of a year is completed.

TH.796 οὐδέ ποτ' ἀμβροσίης καὶ νέκταρος ἔρχεται ἆσσον

TH.797 Nor does he ever approach to partake of ambrosia or of

TH.797 βρώσιος, ἀλλά τε κεῖται ἀνάπνευστος καὶ ἄναυδος

TH.798 Nectar, but lies without spirit or voice on a bed hat is strewn with

TH.798 στρωτοῖς ἐν λεχέεσσι, κακὸν δ' ἐπὶ κῶμα καλύπτει.

TH.799 Bed clothes; and him a malignant and magical slumber envelops.

TH.799 αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν νοῦσον τελέσει μέγαν εἰς ἐνιαυτόν,

TH.800 Once he has done with that illness and come to the end of a long year,

TH.800 ἄλλος δ' ἐξ ἄλλου δέχεται χαλεπώτερος ἆθλος:

TH.801 After that trial another and harder one follows, one hard on another;

TH.801 εἰνάετες δὲ θεῶν ἀπαμείρεται αἰὲν ἐόντων,

TH.802 For from the gods whose life is eternal he's sundered for nine years,

TH.802 οὐδέ ποτ' ἐς βουλὴν ἐπιμίσγεται οὐδ' ἐπὶ δαῖτας

TH.803 Never to mix in their concils nor join in theirs feasts for the whole nine

TH.803 ἐννέα πάντ' ἔτεα: δεκάτῳ δ' ἐπιμίσγεται αὖτις

TH.804 Years. In the tenth he rejoins the assemblies of all the immortal

TH.804 εἰρέας ἀθανάτων οἳ Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσι.

TH.805 Gods on Olympus. So such is the oath that they swear by the ancient

TH.805 τοῖον ἄρ' ὅρκον ἔθεντο θεοὶ Στυγὸς ἄφθιτον ὕδωρ,

TH.806 Ageless, primordial water of Styx, and it springs from a hard place.

TH.806 ὠγύγιον: τὸ δ' ἵησι καταστυφέλου διὰ χώρου.

TH.807 (blank line)

TH.807 ἔνθα δὲ γῆς δνοφερῆς καὶ ταρτάρου ἠερόεντος

TH.808 There in a row all in order the ultimate sources and limits

TH.808 πόντου τ' ἀτρυγέτοιο καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος

TH.809 Are of the darkling earth and of nebulous Tartarus also

TH.809 ἑξείης πάντων πηγαὶ καὶ πείρατ' ἔασιν,

TH.810 Of the unharvested sea as well as the star-studded heavens,

TH.810 ἀργαλέ' εὐρώεντα, τά τε στυγέουσι θεοί περ.

TH.811 Loathsome, malodorous, foul, and indeed the immortals detest them.

TH.811 ἔνθα δὲ μαρμάρεαί τε πύλαι καὶ χάλκεος οὐδός,

TH.812 There are the glistening gates and the threshold of natural bronze set

TH.812 ἀστεμφὲς ῥίζῃσι διηνεκέεσσιν ἀρηρώς,

TH.813 Fast and immoveable, fixed to continuous rooted foundations.

TH.813 αὐτοφυής: πρόσθεν δὲ θεῶν ἔκτοσθεν ἁπάντων

TH.814 Outside and beyond these, apart from the other divinties dwell the

TH.814 Τιτῆνες ναίουσι, πέρην χάεος ζοφεροῖο.

TH.815 Titans over against inarticulate Chaos; however

TH.815 αὐτὰρ ἐρισμαράγοιο Διὸς κλειτοὶ ἐπίκουροι

TH.816 (blank line)

TH.816 δώματα ναιετάουσιν ἐπ' Ὠκεανοῖο θεμέθλοις,

TH.817 Cottus and Gyges the glorious allies of noisy, stentorian Zeus keep

TH.817 Κόττος τ' ἠδὲ Γύγης: Βριάρεών γε μὲν ἠῢν ἐόντα

TH.818 House in the depths of the Ocean. However Poseidon the heavy

TH.818 γαμβρὸν ἑὸν ποίησε βαρύκτυπος ἐννοσίγαιος,

TH.819 Thundering earth-quaker made Briareus because he was brave his

TH.819 δῶκε δὲ Κυμοπόλειαν ὀπυίειν, θυγατέρα ἥν.

TH.820 Son-in-law, giving him Cympolea his daughter in marriage.

TH.820 αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ Τιτῆνας ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ ἐξέλασε Ζεύς,

TH.821 Then after Zeus had expelled the Titans from heaven prodigious

TH.821 ὁπλότατον τέκε παῖδα Τυφωέα Γαῖα πελώρη

TH.822 Earth gave birth to the last of her children, Typhoeus, enduring

TH.822 Ταρτάρου ἐν φιλότητι διὰ χρυσῆν Ἀφροδίτην:

TH.823 Sexual union with Tartarus through the connivance of gold Aphrodite.

TH.823 οὗ χεῖρες μὲν ἔασιν ἐπ' ἰσχύϊ ἔργματ' ἔχουσαι,

TH.824 Strong were his hands in defense and in all his endeavours, his feet were

TH.824 καὶ πόδες ἀκάματοι κρατεροῦ θεοῦ: ἐκ δέ οἱ ὤμων

TH.825 Indefatigable, those of a robust divinity. From his

TH.825 ἦν ἑκατὸν κεφαλαὶ ὄφιος δεινοῖο δράκοντος,

TH.826 Shoulders a hundred serpentine heads like a terrible dragon's

TH.826 γλώσσῃσι δνοφερῇσι λελιχμότες: ἐν δέ οἱ ὄσσε

TH.827 Sprouted with pitchy, flickering tongues; from the eyes underneath the

TH.827 θεσπεσίῃς κεφαλῇσιν ὑπ' ὀφρύσι πῦρ ἀμάρυσσεν:

TH.828 Brows in their magical heads a malevolent fire corruscated.

TH.828 [πασέων δ' ἐκ κεφαλέων πῦρ καίετο δερκομένοιο:]

TH.829 From all these heads as he glared all about him a fire was blazing,

TH.829 φωναὶ δ' ἐν πάσῃσιν ἔσαν δεινῇς κεφαλῇσι,

TH.830 And there were voices inside of these terrrible heads which projected

TH.830 παντοίην ὄπ' ἰεῖσαι ἀθέσφατον: ἄλλοτε μὲν γὰρ

TH.831 Every sort of unspeakable voice, for at one time they uttered

TH.831 φθέγγονθ' ὥς τε θεοῖσι συνιέμεν, ἄλλοτε δ' αὖτε

TH.832 Speech such as gods understand, and at others the sound of a loudly

TH.832 ταύρου ἐριβρύχεω μένος ἀσχέτου ὄσσαν ἀγαύρου,

TH.833 Bellowing bull in the pride of unbridled ferocity; then once

TH.833 ἄλλοτε δ' αὖτε λέοντος ἀναιδέα θυμὸν ἔχοντος,

TH.834 More he would roar like a lion of impudent courage, then whimper

TH.834 ἄλλοτε δ' αὖ σκυλάκεσσιν ἐοικότα, θαύματ' ἀκοῦσαι,

TH.835 Puppylike, woundrous to hear, then hiss till the high hills resounded.

TH.835 ἄλλοτε δ' αὖ ῥοίζεσχ', ὑπὸ δ' ἤχεεν οὔρεα μακρά.

TH.836 Then would a deed beyond any recourse have been done on that same day,

TH.836 καί νύ κεν ἔπλετο ἔργον ἀμήχανον ἤματι κείνῳ,

TH.837 And this Typhoeus would surely have ruled the immortals and mortals

TH.837 καί κεν ὅ γε θνητοῖσι καὶ ἀθανάτοισιν ἄναξεν,

TH.838 (blank line)

TH.838 εἰ μὴ ἄρ' ὀξὺ νόησε πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε:

TH.839 Had not the father of gods and of men been sharp to take notice.

TH.839 σκληρὸν δ' ἐβρόντησε καὶ ὄβριμον, ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖα

TH.840 Mightily harshly he thundered, so loud that the eatth all around shook,

TH.840 σμερδαλέον κονάβησε καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθε

TH.841 Making a terrible noise, like the far-reaching heavens above, the

TH.841 πόντός τ' Ὠκεανοῦ τε ῥοαὶ καὶ τάρταρα γαίης.

TH.842 Sea and the streams of the ocean, the pits of the underworld also.

TH.842 ποσσὶ δ' ὕπ' ἀθανάτοισι μέγας πελεμίζετ' Ὄλυμπος

TH.843 Mighty Olympus unsteadily tottered beneath the immortal

TH.843 ὀρνυμένοιο ἄνακτος: ἐπεστονάχιζε δὲ γαῖα.

TH.844 Feet of its lord in arousal and earth sympathetically groaned. The

TH.844 καῦμα δ' ὑπ' ἀμφοτέρων κάτεχεν ἰοειδέα πόντον

TH.845 Heat that emitted from both of them seized on the violet-hued sea,

TH.845 βροντῆς τε στεροπῆς τε πυρός τ' ἀπὸ τοῖο πελώρου

TH.846 Blazes of thunder and lightning as well as the fire from the monster's

TH.846 πρηστήρων ἀνέμων τε κεραυνοῦ τε φλεγέθοντος:

TH.847 Burning, the hurricane winds and the thunderbolts' sizzle and crackle.

TH.847 ἔζεε δὲ χθὼν πᾶσα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἠδὲ θάλασσα:

TH.848 All of the earth boiled up, and the sky and the sea in addition.

TH.848 θυῖε δ' ἄρ' ἀμφ' ἀκτὰς περί τ' ἀμφί τε κύματα μακρὰ

TH.849 Round and about all the headlands and beaches the breakers were crashing

TH.849 ῥιπῇ ὕπ' ἀθανάτων, ἔνοσις δ' ἄσβεστος ὀρώρει:

TH.850 Under the charge of the gods; there occurred an unquenchable earthquake.

TH.850 τρέε δ' Ἀΐδης ἐνέροισι καταφθιμένοισιν ἀνάσσων

TH.851 Hades who governs the dead in his underworld kingdom was frightened,

TH.851 Τιτῆνές θ' ὑποταρτάριοι Κρόνον ἀμφὶς ἐόντες

TH.852 So were the Titans who dwell under Tartarus round about Cronos,

TH.852 ἀσβέστου κελάδοιο καὶ αἰνῆς δηϊοτῆτος.

TH.853 By that unquenchable racket and horrible clangor of battle.

TH.853 Ζεὺς δ' ἐπεὶ οὖν κόρθυνεν ἑὸν μένος, εἵλετο δ' ὅπλα,

TH.854 Zeus, when he'd gathered his strength and taken hold of his weapons,

TH.854 βροντήν τε στεροπήν τε καὶ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνόν,

TH.855 Thunder and lightning, that is, and his bright-burning thunderbolt also,

TH.855 πλῆξεν ἀπ' Οὐλύμποιο ἐπάλμενος: ἀμφὶ δὲ πάσας

TH.856 Jumped from Olympus impulsievly striking Typhoeus and set on

TH.856 ἔπρεσε θεσπεσίας κεφαλὰς δεινοῖο πελώρου.

TH.857 Fire all the marvellous heads of the monster that sprouted all over

TH.857 αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δή μιν δάμασε πληγῇσιν ἱμάσσας,

TH.858 Him. Then when Zeus had subdued him and whipped him again and again with

TH.858 ἤριπε γυιωθείς, στονάχιζε δὲ γαῖα πελώρη:

TH.859 Lashes of lighning, he hurled him down, crippled; the monstrous earth groaned.

TH.859 φλὸξ δὲ κεραυνωθέντος ἀπέσσυτο τοῖο ἄνακτος

TH.860 Flames shot out of the thunderstruck deity where he'd been struck

TH.860 οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσιν ἀϊδνῆς παιπαλοέσσης

TH.861 Down to the earth in the rough, inacessible dells of the mountain.

TH.861 πληγέντος, πολλὴ δὲ πελώρη καίετο γαῖα

TH.862 Much of the monstrous earth was dissolved by that weird exhalation,

TH.862 αὐτμῇ θεσπεσίῃ, καὶ ἐτήκετο κασσίτερος ὣς

TH.863 Melting like tin that is heated by technical means by some sturdy

TH.863 τέχνῃ ὑπ' αἰζηῶν ἐν ἐϋτρήτοις χοάνοισι

TH.864 Workmen in pervious crucibles, or like iron, the strongest

TH.864 θαλφθείς, ἠὲ σίδηρος, ὅ περ κρατερώτατός ἐστιν,

TH.865 Element, tamed and refined by a hot-burning fire in the mountain

TH.865 οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσι δαμαζόμενος πυρὶ κηλέῳ

TH.866 Dales, which is smelted in godly earth by the might of Hephaestus.

TH.866 τήκεται ἐν χθονὶ δίῃ ὑφ' Ἡφαίστου παλάμῃσιν:

TH.867 (blank line)

TH.867 ὣς ἄρα τήκετο γαῖα σέλᾳ πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο.

TH.868 So earth melted at once in a flash of that blazing and glistening fire.

TH.868 ῥῖψε δέ μιν θυμῷ ἀκαχὼν ἐς τάρταρον εὐρύν.

TH.869 Into broad Tartarus Zeus, being angered, ejected Tyhoeus.

TH.869 ἐκ δὲ Τυφωέος ἔστ' ἀνέμων μένος ὑγρὸν ἀέντων,

TH.870 And fromTyphoeus arises the force of the humidly blowing

TH.870 νόσφι Νότου Βορέω τε καὶ ἀργεστέω Ζεφύροιο:

TH.871 Winds, except Notus and Boreas and wholesome, brightening Zephyr,

TH.871 οἵ γε μὲν ἐκ θεόφιν γενεήν, θνητοῖς μέγ' ὄνειαρ.

TH.872 Winds that are born of the gods, a magnificent blessing for mankind.

TH.872 αἱ δ' ἄλλαι μὰψ αὖραι ἐπιπνείουσι θάλασσαν:

TH.873 Every-which-way and at random those other winds blow on the sea and

TH.873 αἳ δή τοι πίπτουσαι ἐς ἠεροειδέα πόντον,

TH.874 Fitfully rising and falling descend on the cloud-covered deep, a

TH.874 πῆμα μέγα θνητοῖσι, κακῇ θυίουσιν ἀέλλῃ:

TH.875 Terrible trial for men with their boisterous, roistering breezes,

TH.875 ἄλλοτε δ' ἄλλαι ἄεισι διασκιδνᾶσί τε νῆας

TH.876 Blowing in different directions at different seasons, they scatter

TH.876 ναύτας τε φθείρουσι: κακοῦ δ' οὐ γίνεται ἀλκὴ

TH.877 Vessels and murder their mariners. There is help no for such ills for

TH.877 ἀνδράσιν, οἳ κείνῃσι συνάντωνται κατὰ πόντον.

TH.878 Seafaring men who encounter tempests like these on the deep sea.

TH.878 αἱ δ' αὖ καὶ κατὰ γαῖαν ἀπείριτον ἀνθεμόεσσαν

TH.879 Furthermore raging all over the limitless, flowery earth they

TH.879 ἔργ' ἐρατὰ φθείρουσι χαμαιγενέων ἀνθρώπων,

TH.880 Ruin the beautiful works of mankind who are earth-generated,

TH.880 πιμπλεῖσαι κόνιός τε καὶ ἀργαλέου κολοσυρτοῦ.

TH.881 Filling their fields and their dwellings with dust and a horrible uproar.

TH.881 αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥα πόνον μάκαρες θεοὶ ἐξετέλεσσαν,

TH.882 Then at last when the blessed divinities finished their labour,

TH.882 Τιτήνεσσι δὲ τιμάων κρίναντο βίηφι,

TH.883 Having decided by force their rights in regard to the Titans,

TH.883 δή ῥα τότ' ὤτρυνον βασιλευέμεν ἠδὲ ἀνάσσειν

TH.884 Then they invited Olympian, farsighted Zeus to become the

TH.884 Γαίης φραδμοσύνῃσιν Ὀλύμπιον εὐρύοπα Ζῆν

TH.885 Ruler and king of the gods, as advised by the earth-goddess Gaia.

TH.885 ἀθανάτων: ὁ δὲ τοῖσιν ἐῢ διεδάσσατο τιμάς.

TH.886 That being settled, he split their prerogative honours among them.

TH.886 Ζεὺς δὲ θεῶν βασιλεὺς πρώτην ἄλοχον θέτο Μῆτιν,

TH.887 Zeus, being king, first married the goddess of practical reason,

TH.887 πλεῖστα θεῶν εἰδυῖαν ἰδὲ θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων.

TH.888 Metis, the wisest, most knowledgeable of immmortals or mortals.

TH.888 ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ ἄρ' ἔμελλε θεὰν γλαυκῶπιν Ἀθήνην

TH.889 But, just as she was about to give birth to grey-eyed Athena,

TH.889 τέξεσθαι, τότ' ἔπειτα δόλῳ φρένας ἐξαπατήσας

TH.890 Zeus, at that moments misleading her wits by a cunning deception

TH.890 αἱμυλίοισι λόγοισιν ἑὴν ἐσκάτθετο νηδύν,

TH.891 And with his flattering arguments, swallowed her into his stomach,

TH.891 Γαίης φραδμοσύνῃσι καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος:

TH.892 At the advice of the earth-goddess Gaia and star-studded Heaven.

TH.892 τὼς γάρ οἱ φρασάτην, ἵνα μὴ βασιληΐδα τιμὴν

TH.893 For they instructed him thusly in order that none of the other

TH.893 ἄλλος ἔχοι Διὸς ἀντὶ θεῶν αἰειγενετάων.

TH.894 Gods whose race is eternal should get royal power but Zeus.

TH.894 ἐκ γὰρ τῆς εἵμαρτο περίφρονα τέκνα γενέσθαι:

TH.895 All too intelligent children were destined to come out of Metis;

TH.895 πρώτην μὲν κούρην γλαυκώπιδα Τριτογένειαν,

TH.896 First was the grey-eyed maiden Athena, called Tritogeneia,

TH.896 ἶσον ἔχουσαν πατρὶ μένος καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν,

TH.897 Who in intelligent counsel and forcefulness equals her father.

TH.897 αὐτὰρ ἔπειτ' ἄρα παῖδα θεῶν βασιλῆα καὶ ἀνδρῶν

TH.898 Later, when Metis was pregnant again with a child of a reckless

TH.898 ἤμελλεν τέξεσθαι, ὑπέρβιον ἦτορ ἔχοντα:

TH.899 Character larger than life, future king of the gods and of men, too,

TH.899 ἀλλ' ἄρα μιν Ζεὺς πρόσθεν ἑὴν ἐσκάτθετο νηδύν,

TH.900 Zeus before she could do so, swallowed her into his belly,

TH.900 ὥς οἱ συμφράσσαιτο θεὰ ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε.

TH.901 So that the goddess might teach him the meaning of good and of evil.

TH.901 δεύτερον ἠγάγετο λιπαρὴν Θέμιν, ἣ τέκεν Ὥρας,

TH.902 Second he wed brilliant Themis the goddess of law and tradition,

TH.902 Εὐνομίην τε Δίκην τε καὶ Εἰρήνην τεθαλυῖαν,

TH.903 Who bore him the Seasons, Eunomia, Diki and fruitful Ireni--

TH.903 αἵ τ' ἔργ' ὠρεύουσι καταθνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι,

TH.904 Order and Justice and Peace--regulating the works of us mortals,

TH.904 Μοίρας θ', ᾗς πλείστην τιμὴν πόρε μητίετα Ζεύς,

TH.905 Also the Moirai--the Fates, to whom Zeus paid the greatest respect:

TH.905 Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵ τε διδοῦσι

TH.906 Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, giver of mens' good and evil.

TH.906 θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποισιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε.

TH.907 (blank line)

TH.907 τρεῖς δέ οἱ Εὐρυνόμη Χάριτας τέκε καλλιπαρήους,

TH.908 Next did Eurynome, she who possessed a surpassingly pretty,

TH.908 Ὠκεανοῦ κούρη πολυήρατον εἶδος ἔχουσα,

TH.909 Lovely appearane, the daughter of Ocean bear the three Graces,

TH.909 Ἀγλαΐην τε καὶ Εὐφροσύνην Θαλίην τ' ἐρατεινήν:

TH.910 Namely Aglaia, as well as Euphrosyne, Thalia also,

TH.910 τῶν καὶ ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ἔρος εἴβετο δερκομενάων

TH.911 Graceful indeed, for from under their eyelids love which undoes the

TH.911 λυσιμελής: καλὸν δέ θ' ὑπ' ὀφρύσι δερκιόωνται.

TH.912 Limbs drips, under their eyebrows beauty entrancingly glances.

TH.912 αὐτὰρ ὁ Δήμητρος πολυφόρβης ἐς λέχος ἦλθεν:

TH.913 Next Zeus went to the bed of Demeter who nourishes many,

TH.913 ἣ τέκε Περσεφόνην λευκώλενον, ἣν Ἀϊδωνεὺς

TH.914 Who gave birth to Persephone who had white arms and whom Hades

TH.914 ἥρπασεν ἧς παρὰ μητρός, ἔδωκε δὲ μητίετα Ζεύς.

TH.915 Snatched from her mother; but Zeus in his wisdom gave her to Hades.

TH.915 Μνημοσύνης δ' ἐξαῦτις ἐράσσατο καλλικόμοιο,

TH.916 And yet again to exquisite Mnenosme--Memory--Zeus made

TH.916 ἐξ ἧς οἱ Μοῦσαι χρυσάμπυκες ἐξεγένοντο

TH.917 Love, and from her the nine muses with golden tiaras were born; to

TH.917 ἐννέα, τῇσιν ἅδον θαλίαι καὶ τέρψις ἀοιδῆς.

TH.918 Them festive banquets are pleasing as well as the pleasure of music.

TH.918 Λητὼ δ' Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν

TH.919 Leto, uniting in fondness with Zeus who is Lord of the goat-shield

TH.919 ἱμερόεντα γόνον περὶ πάντων *Οὐρανιώνων

TH.920 Bore him far-shooting Apollo and Artemis shooter of arrows,

TH.920 γείνατ' ἄρ' αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς φιλότητι μιγεῖσα.

TH.921 Lovely, desirable children above all the offspring of heaven.

TH.921 λοισθοτάτην δ' Ἥρην θαλερὴν ποιήσατ' ἄκοιτιν:

TH.922 Finally Zeus made Hera his beautiful, flourishing consort;

TH.922 ἡ δ' Ἥβην καὶ Ἄρηα καὶ Εἰλείθυιαν ἔτικτε

TH.923 She bore Hebe and Ares, and kind Eileithya, the helper in childbirth

TH.923 μιχθεῖσ' ἐν φιλότητι θεῶν βασιλῆϊ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.

TH.924 After uniting in love with the king of the gods and of mankind.

TH.924 αὐτὸς δ' ἐκ κεφαλῆς γλαυκώπιδα γείνατ' Ἀθήνην,

TH.925 All by himself from his head Zeus fathered grey-eyed Athena,

TH.925 δεινὴν ἐγρεκύδοιμον ἀγέστρατον ἀτρυτώνην,

TH.926 Terrible rouser to battle and leader of armies, that tireless

TH.926 πότνιαν, ᾗ κέλαδοί τε ἅδον πόλεμοί τε μάχαι τε:

TH.927 Lady whose pleasure is ever in war-cries and warfare and fighting.

TH.927 Ἥρη δ' Ἥφαιστον κλυτὸν οὐ φιλότητι μιγεῖσα

TH.928 Hera engendered the craftsman Hephaestus, not having engaged in

TH.928 γείνατο, καὶ ζαμένησε καὶ ἤρισεν ᾧ παρακοίτῃ,

TH.929 Marital intercourse, for she had quarreled, annoyed with her husband--

TH.929 ἐκ πάντων τέχνῃσι κεκασμένον *Οὐρανιώνων.

TH.930 Famous Hephaestus, surpassing in handwork all the immortals.

TH.930 ἐκ δ' Ἀμφιτρίτης καὶ ἐρικτύπου ἐννοσιγαίου

TH.931 From Amphitrite and noisy Poseidon the maker of earth-quakes

TH.931 Τρίτων εὐρυβίης γένετο μέγας, ὅς τε θαλάσσης

TH.932 Mighty, loud-trumpeting Triton was born who inhabits the sea-depths

TH.932 πυθμέν' ἔχων παρὰ μητρὶ φίλῃ καὶ πατρὶ ἄνακτι

TH.933 Where with the mother he loves and his lordly progenitor in a

TH.933 ναίει χρύσεα δῶ, δεινὸς θεός. αὐτὰρ Ἄρηϊ

TH.934 Mansion of gold he abides, and an awesome divinity he is!

TH.934 ῥινοτόρῳ Κυθέρεια Φόβον καὶ Δεῖμον ἔτικτε,

TH.935 But Aphrodite, in union with shield-bearing Ares gave birh to

TH.935 δεινούς, οἵ τ' ἀνδρῶν πυκινὰς κλονέουσι φάλαγγας

TH.936 Terror and Dread the terrible ones who dissipate human

TH.936 ἐν πολέμῳ κρυόεντι σὺν Ἄρηϊ πτολιπόρθῳ,

TH.937 Battle formations in cold-blooded war with Ares destroyer of cities,

TH.937 Ἁρμονίην θ', ἣν Κάδμος ὑπέρθυμος θέτ' ἄκοιτιν.

TH.938 Also Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus espoused.

TH.938 Ζηνὶ δ' ἄρ' Ἀτλαντὶς Μαίη τέκε κύδιμον Ἑρμῆν,

TH.939 Maia, Atlas's daughter, bore Zeus glorious Hermes

TH.939 κήρυκ' ἀθανάτων, ἱερὸν λέχος εἰσαναβᾶσα.

TH.940 Having got into his blest bed, herald of blessed immortals.

TH.940 Καδμηῒς δ' ἄρα οἱ Σεμέλη τέκε φαίδιμον υἱὸν

TH.941 Semele, daughter of Cadmus, having united in love with

TH.941 μιχθεῖσ' ἐν φιλότητι, Διώνυσον πολυγηθέα,

TH.942 Zeus bore him a splendid son, Dionysus, the source of

TH.942 ἀθάνατον θνητή: νῦν δ' ἀμφότεροι θεοί εἰσιν.

TH.943 Much cheer, an immortal though she was a mortal, but now they are both gods.

TH.943 Ἀλκμήνη δ' ἄρ' ἔτικτε βίην Ἡρακληείην

TH.944 Also Alcmene, uniting in sexual congress with Zeus who

TH.944 μιχθεῖσ' ἐν φιλότητι Διὸς νεφεληγερέταο.

TH.945 Gathers the clouds bore powerful, muscular Heracles to him.

TH.945 Ἀγλαΐην δ' Ἥφαιστος ἀγακλυτὸς ἀμφιγυήεις

TH.946 Furthermore famous Hephaestus the splay-footed craftsman espoused the

TH.946 ὁπλοτάτην Χαρίτων θαλερὴν ποιήσατ' ἄκοιτιν.

TH.947 Youngest of Graces, Aglaia and made her his blossoming wife.

TH.947 χρυσοκόμης δὲ Διώνυσος ξανθὴν Ἀριάδνην,

TH.948 And golden-locked Dionysus espoused fair-haired Ariadne,

TH.948 κούρην Μίνωος, θαλερὴν ποιήσατ' ἄκοιτιν:

TH.949 Daughter of Minos of Crete, and he made her his blossoming wife,

TH.949 τὴν δέ οἱ ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀγήρων θῆκε Κρονίων.

TH.950 For the scion of Cronos made her immortal and ageless.

TH.950 Ἥβην δ' Ἀλκμήνης καλλισφύρου ἄλκιμος υἱός,

TH.951 Heracles, virile and valiant son of trim-ankled Alcmene

TH.951 ἲς Ἡρακλῆος, τελέσας στονόεντας ἀέθλους,

TH.952 When he had finished his tiresome trials took as his blooming

TH.952 παῖδα Διὸς μεγάλοιο καὶ Ἥρης χρυσοπεδίλου,

TH.953 Wife upon snowy Olympus Hebe the child of almighty

TH.953 αἰδοίην θέτ' ἄκοιτιν ἐν Οὐλύμπῳ νιφόεντι:

TH.954 Zeus and of Hera whose sandals are are golden; he is blessed because he,

TH.954 ὄλβιος, ὃς μέγα ἔργον ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἀνύσσας

TH.955 Having accomplaplished his great undertaking among the immortals

TH.955 ναίει ἀπήμαντος καὶ ἀγήραος ἤματα πάντα.

TH.956 Lives beyond all human suffering, ageless for all of his days.

TH.956 Ἠελίῳ δ' ἀκάμαντι τέκε κλυτὸς Ὠκεανίνη

TH.957 Perseis, well-known and beauteous daugter of Ocean, delivered

TH.957 Περσηὶς Κίρκην τε καὶ Αἰήτην βασιλῆα.

TH.958 To the inexhaustible Sun both Aeetes the monarch and Circe.

TH.958 Αἰήτης δ' υἱὸς φαεσιμβρότου Ἠελίοιο

TH.959 Kingly Aeetes the son of the sun who illuminates mankind

TH.959 κούρην Ὠκεανοῖο τελήεντος ποταμοῖο

TH.960 Married Idyia whose cheeks were so fair to fulfill the divine scheme,

TH.960 γῆμε θεῶν βουλῇσιν, Ἰδυῖαν καλλιπάρηον:

TH.961 Maidenly daughter of Ocean, the perfect and utimate river.

TH.961 ἣ δή οἱ Μήδειαν ἐΰσφυρον ἐν φιλότητι

TH.962 She in her turn bore Medea (whose ankles were trim) after being

TH.962 γείναθ' ὑποδμηθεῖσα διὰ χρυσῆν Ἀφροδίτην.

TH.963 Bent to the sexual act by the working of gold Aphrodite.

TH.963 ὑμεῖς μὲν νῦν χαίρετ', Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχοντες,

TH.964 Now farewell to you deities all who inhabit the halls of Olympus,

TH.964 νῆσοί τ' ἤπειροί τε καὶ ἁλμυρὸς ἔνδοθι πόντος:

TH.965 Islands and continents, too, and the salt sea between and among them!

TH.965 νῦν δὲ θεάων φῦλον ἀείσατε, ἡδυέπειαι

TH.966 Sing of the races of godesses now, and the sweet-spoken Muses,

TH.966 Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες, κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο,

TH.967 Daughters conceived on Olympus by Zeus who is lord of the goatskin

TH.967 ὅσσαι δὴ θνητοῖσι παρ' ἀνδράσιν εὐνηθεῖσαι

TH.968 Shield, how they bedded with men who were mortal, although they themselves were

TH.968 ἀθάναται γείναντο θεοῖς ἐπιείκελα τέκνα.

TH.969 Not and conceived and brought forth mortal children resembling the gods.

TH.969 Δημήτηρ μὲν Πλοῦτον ἐγείνατο δῖα θεάων,

TH.970 Queenly Demeter gave birth to the noble demigod Plutus

TH.970 Ἰασίῳ ἥρωϊ μιγεῖσ' ἐρατῇ φιλότητι

TH.971 Lying in liking and love with heroic Iasion

TH.971 νειῷ ἔνι τριπόλῳ, Κρήτης ἐν πίονι δήμῳ,

TH.972 out in a thrice-plowed field in the prosperous country of Crete

TH.972 ἐσθλόν, ὃς εἶσ' ἐπὶ γῆν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης

TH.973 Plutus, a kindly divinity, travels all over the earth and

TH.973 πᾶσαν: τῷ δὲ τυχόντι καὶ οὗ κ' ἐς χεῖρας ἵκηται,

TH.974 Broad-backed sea, and to one who who is lucky enough to

TH.974 τὸν δὴ ἀφνειὸν ἔθηκε, πολὺν δέ οἱ ὤπασεν ὄλβον.

TH.975 Come in his way he gves plenty of money and makes him a rich man.

TH.975 Κάδμῳ δ' Ἁρμονίη, θυγάτηρ χρυσῆς Ἀφροδίτης,

TH.976 Daughter of gold Aphrodite, Harmonia brought forth to Cadmus

TH.976 Ἰνὼ καὶ Σεμέλην καὶ Ἀγαυὴν καλλιπάρηον

TH.977 Ino and Semele, also sweet-cheeked Agave the naiad,

TH.977 Αὐτονόην θ', ἣν γῆμεν Ἀρισταῖος βαθυχαίτης,

TH.978 Plus Autonoe who wedded long-haired Aristaeus and bore him

TH.978 γείνατο καὶ Πολύδωρον ἐϋστεφάνῳ ἐνὶ Θήβῃ.

TH.979 Prince Polydorus in Thebes all encirlacled with ramparts and towers.

TH.979 κούρη δ' Ὠκεανοῦ Χρυσάορι καρτεροθύμῳ

TH.980 Also a daughter of Ocean , the nymph Callirhoe in loving

TH.980 μιχθεῖσ' ἐν φιλότητι πολυχρύσου Ἀφροδίτης

TH.981 Union with strong-willed Chrysaor, obeying the will of the splendid

TH.981 Καλλιρόη τέκε παῖδα βροτῶν κάρτιστον ἁπάντων,

TH.982 Goddess of love, Aphrodite, gave birth to the strongest of mankind,

TH.982 Γηρυονέα, τὸν κτεῖνε βίη Ἡρακληείη

TH.983 Geryon, whom stout Heracles killed on account of some round-hoofed

TH.983 βοῶν ἕνεκ' εἰλιπόδων ἀμφιρρύτῳ εἰν Ἐρυθείῃ.

TH.984 Cattle that Heracles stole on Erythea surrounded by water.

TH.984 Τιθωνῷ δ' Ἠὼς τέκε Μέμνονα χαλκοκορυστήν,

TH.985 Eos bore to Tithonus a son, bronze-helmeted Memnon,

TH.985 Αἰθιόπων βασιλῆα, καὶ Ἠμαθίωνα ἄνακτα.

TH.986 King of the black Ethiopeans, lordly Emathion also.

TH.986 αὐτάρ τοι Κεφάλῳ φιτύσατο φαίδιμον υἱόν,

TH.987 Also by Cephalus Eos conceived a glorious son, strong

TH.987 ἴφθιμον Φαέθοντα, θεοῖς ἐπιείκελον ἄνδρα:

TH.988 Phaethon, who was a man who resembled the gods, and when he was

TH.988 τόν ῥα νέον τέρεν ἄνθος ἔχοντ' ἐρικυδέος ἥβης

TH.989 Only a youngster possessing the delicate blossom of splendid

TH.989 παῖδ' ἀταλὰ φρονέοντα φιλομμειδὴς Ἀφροδίτη

TH.990 Boyhood, no more than a child with a childlike intelligence, smiling

TH.990 ὦρτ' ἀνερειψαμένη, καί μιν ζαθέοις ἐνὶ νηοῖς

TH.991 Lewd Aphrodite enraptured and raped him and made him a temple

TH.991 νηοπόλον μύχιον ποιήσατο, δαίμονα δῖον.

TH.992 Servitor deep in her holiest temple, a guardian spirit.

TH.992 κούρην δ' Αἰήταο διοτρεφέος βασιλῆος

TH.993 Jason the son of Aeson abducted the daughter of royal,

TH.993 Αἰσονίδης βουλῇσι θεῶν αἰειγενετάων

TH.994 High-bred Aetes, fulfilling the will of the gods, from Aetes

TH.994 ἦγε παρ' Αἰήτεω, τελέσας στονόεντας ἀέθλους,

TH.995 After performing the many and grievous labours imposed by

TH.995 τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐπέτελλε μέγας βασιλεὺς ὑπερήνωρ,

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TH.996 ὑβριστὴς Πελίης καὶ ἀτάσθαλος ὀβριμοεργός:

TH.997 Great king Pelias, that overbearing and arrogant, ruthless

TH.997 τοὺς τελέσας ἐς Ἰωλκὸν ἀφίκετο πολλὰ μογήσας

TH.997 Vile evildoer; when Jason had finished these feats he arrived,

TH.998 ὠκείης ἐπὶ νηὸς ἄγων ἑλικώπιδα κούρην

TH.998 After much toil, at Iolcus, and with him he brought on his swift ship

TH.999 Αἰσονίδης, καί μιν θαλερὴν ποιήσατ' ἄκοιτιν.

TH.999 Roguish Medea, the daughter of royal Aetes. In wifely

TH.1000 καί ῥ' ἥ γε δμηθεῖσ' ὑπ' Ἰήσονι ποιμένι λαῶν

TH.1000 Duty to Jason, the shepherd and king of his people, she bore him

TH.1001 Μήδειον τέκε παῖδα, τὸν οὔρεσιν ἔτρεφε Χείρων

TH.1001 Little Medeus, whom Chiron the centaur, the son of Phillyra

TH.1002 Φιλλυρίδης: μεγάλου δὲ Διὸς νόος ἐξετελεῖτο.

TH.1002 Reared in the mountains. And so was accomplished the purpose of great Zeus.

TH.1003 αὐτὰρ Νηρῆος κοῦραι ἁλίοιο γέροντος,

TH.1003 As for the daughters of Nereus, called the old man of the sea,

TH.1004 ἤτοι μὲν Φῶκον Ψαμάθη τέκε δῖα θεάων

TH.1004 Psamathi queen among goddesses bore from her love for Aeacus,

TH.1005 Αἰακοῦ ἐν φιλότητι διὰ χρυσῆν Ἀφροδίτην:

TH.1005 Prompted by bright Aphrodite, Phocus; and silvery-footed

TH.1006 Πηλέϊ δὲ δμηθεῖσα θεὰ Θέτις ἀργυρόπεζα

TH.1006 Thetis gave birth to Achilles the lion-heart, breaker of men.

TH.1007 γείνατ' Ἀχιλλῆα ῥηξήνορα θυμολέοντα.

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TH.1008 Αἰνείαν δ' ἄρ' ἔτικτεν ἐϋστέφανος Κυθέρεια,

TH.1008 And Aphrodite, the gorgeously garlanded goddess of love, in erotic

TH.1009 Ἀγχίσῃ ἥρωϊ μιγεῖσ' ἐρατῇ φιλότητι

TH.1009 Union with virile Anchises bore him heroic Aeneas

TH.1010 Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ἠνεμοέσσης.

TH.1010 High on the summit of rugged, wrinkled and wind-swept Mt Ida.

TH.1011 Κίρκη δ' Ἠελίου θυγάτηρ Ὑπεριονίδαο

TH.1011 Circe, the daughter of Helius, son of Hyperon, had from

TH.1012 γείνατ' Ὀδυσσῆος ταλασίφρονος ἐν φιλότητι

TH.1012 Sexual congress with clever and patient Odysseus offspring,

TH.1013 Ἄγριον ἠδὲ Λατῖνον ἀμύμονά τε κρατερόν τε:

TH.1013 Agrius, also unblemished, impeccable sturdy Latinus,

TH.1014 [Τηλέγονον δὲ ἔτικτε διὰ χρυσῆν Ἀφροδίτην:]

TH.1014 And Telegonus as well, via aureate Aphrodite.

TH.1015 οἳ δή τοι μάλα τῆλε μυχῷ νήσων ἱεράων

TH.1015 Over the far-famed Tyrhenians all tucked away in the holy

TH.1016 πᾶσιν Τυρσηνοῖσιν ἀγακλειτοῖσιν ἄνασσον.

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TH.1017 Ναυσίθοον δ' Ὀδυσῆϊ Καλυψὼ δῖα θεάων

TH.1017 Islands they ruled. And Calypso, that lady divinity, being

TH.1018 γείνατο Ναυσίνοόν τε μιγεῖσ' ἐρατῇ φιλότητι.

TH.1018 Mixed up in sexual love with Odysseus, bore Nausithous.

TH.1019 αὗται μὲν θνητοῖσι παρ' ἀνδράσιν εὐνηθεῖσαι

TH.1020 These godddesses, sleeping with men who were mortal, although they themselves were

TH.1020 ἀθάναται γείναντο θεοῖς ἐπιείκελα τέκνα.

TH.1020 Deathless, conceived and brought forth mortal children resembling the gods.

TH.1021 [νῦν δὲ γυναικῶν φῦλον ἀείσατε, ἡδυέπειαι

TH.1021 Now about womankind sing, sweet-voiced Olympian Muses,

TH.1022 Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες, κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο.]

TH.1022 Daughters of Zeus who is Master and Lord of the Aegis. . .