Homer’s Epigrams

Homer

Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.

  1. seated in assembly are a goodly sight for the folk to see.
  2. But a blazing fire makes a house look more comely upon a winter’s day,
  3. when the Son of Cronos sends down snow.
  1. Potters, if you will give me a reward, I will sing for you.
  2. Come, then, Athena, with hand upraised[*](i.e. in protection.) over the kiln.
  3. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well
  4. and be well fired: let them fetch good prices
  5. and be sold in plenty in the market, and plenty in the streets.
  6. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them.
  7. But if you turn shameless and make false promises,
  8. then I call together the destroyers of kilns,
  9. Shatter and Smash and Charr and Crash
  10. and Crudebake who can work this craft much mischief.