Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Part 16

Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis vi. 2 26: '...and pleasant also it is to know a clear token of ill or good amid all the signs that the deathless ones have given to mortal men.'

Fragment #5--Athenaeus, xi. 498. A: 'And Mares, swift messenger, came to him through the house and brought a silver goblet which he had filled, and gave it to the lord.'

Fragment #6--Athenaeus, xi. 498. B: 'And then Mantes took in his hands the ox's halter and Iphiclus lashed him upon the back. And behind him, with a cup in one hand and a raised sceptre in the other, walked Phylacus and spake amongst the bondmen.'

Fragment #7--Athenaeus, xiii. p. 609 e: Hesiod in the third book of the "Melampodia" called Chalcis in Euboea 'the land of fair women'.

Fragment #8--Strabo, xiv. p. 676: But Hesiod says that Amphilochus was killed by Apollo at Soli.

Fragment #9--Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, v. p. 259: 'And now there is no seer among mortal men such as would know the mind of Zeus who holds the aegis.'

AEGIMIUS (fragments)

Fragment #1--Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iii. 587: But the author of the "Aegimius" says that he (Phrixus) was received without intermediary because of the fleece [2201]. He says that after the sacrifice he purified the fleece and so: 'Holding the fleece he walked into the halls of Aeetes.'

Fragment #2--Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 816: The author of the "Aegimius" says in the second book that Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn where they were mortal.... ....And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.

Fragment #3--Apollodorus, ii. 1.3.1: Hesiod and Acusilaus say that she (Io) was the daughter of Peiren. While she was holding the office of priestess of Hera, Zeus seduced her, and being discovered by Hera, touched the girl and changed her into a white cow, while he swore that he had no intercourse with her. And so Hesiod says that oaths touching the matter of love do not draw down anger from the G.o.ds: 'And thereafter he ordained that an oath concerning the secret deeds of the Cyprian should be without penalty for men.'

Fragment #4--Herodian in Stepha.n.u.s of Byzantium: '(Zeus changed Io) in the fair island Abantis, which the G.o.ds, who are eternally, used to call Abantis aforetime, but Zeus then called it Euboea after the cow.' [2202]

Fragment #5--Scholiast on Euripides, Phoen. 1116: 'And (Hera) set a watcher upon her (Io), great and strong Argus, who with four eyes looks every way. And the G.o.ddess stirred in him unwearying strength: sleep never fell upon his eyes; but he kept sure watch always.'

Fragment #6--Scholiast on Homer, Il. xxiv. 24: 'Slayer of Argus'.

According to Hesiod's tale he (Hermes) slew (Argus) the herdsman of Io.

Fragment #7--Athenaeus, xi. p. 503: And the author of the "Aegimius", whether he is Hesiod or Cercops of Miletus (says): 'There, some day, shall be my place of refreshment, O leader of the people.'

Fragment #8--Etym. Gen.: Hesiod (says there were so called) because they settled in three groups: 'And they all were called the Three-fold people, because they divided in three the land far from their country.'

For (he says) that three h.e.l.lenic tribes settled in Crete, the Pelasgi, Achaeans and Dorians. And these have been called Three-fold People.

FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION

Fragment #1--Diogenes Laertius, viii. 1. 26: [2301] 'So Urania bare Linus, a very lovely son: and him all men who are singers and harpers do bewail at feasts and dances, and as they begin and as they end they call on Linus....'

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i. p. 121: '....who was skilled in all manner of wisdom.'

Fragment #2--Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey, iv. 232: 'Unless Phoebus Apollo should save him from death, or Paean himself who knows the remedies for all things.'

Fragment #3--Clement of Alexandria, Protrept, c. vii. p. 21: 'For he alone is king and lord of all the undying G.o.ds, and no other vies with him in power.'

Fragment #4--Anecd. Oxon (Cramer), i. p. 148: '(To cause?) the gifts of the blessed G.o.ds to come near to earth.'

Fragment #5--Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i. p. 123: 'Of the Muses who make a man very wise, marvellous in utterance.'

Fragment #6--Strabo, x. p. 471: 'But of them (sc. the daughters of Hecaterus) were born the divine mountain Nymphs and the tribe of worthless, helpless Satyrs, and the divine Curetes, sportive dancers.'

Fragment #7--Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 824: 'Beseeching the offspring of glorious Cleodaeus.'

Fragment #8--Suidas, s.v.: 'For the Olympian gave might to the sons of Aeacus, and wisdom to the sons of Amythaon, and wealth to the sons of Atreus.'

Fragment #9--Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, xiii. 155: 'For through his lack of wood the timber of the s.h.i.+ps rotted.'

Fragment #10--Etymologic.u.m Magnum: 'No longer do they walk with delicate feet.'

Fragment #11--Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, xxiv. 624: 'First of all they roasted (pieces of meat), and drew them carefully off the spits.'

Fragment #12--Chrysippus, Fragg. ii. 254. 11: 'For his spirit increased in his dear breast.'

Fragment #13--Chrysippus, Fragg. ii. 254. 15: 'With such heart grieving anger in her breast.'

Fragment #14--Strabo, vii. p. 327: 'He went to Dodona and the oak-grove, the dwelling place of the Pelasgi.'

Fragment #15--Anecd. Oxon (Cramer), iii. p. 318. not.: 'With the pitiless smoke of black pitch and of cedar.'

Fragment #16--Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 757: 'But he himself in the swelling tide of the rain-swollen river.'