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. Come all of you and sack the kiln-yard and the buildings: let the
  2. whole kiln be shaken up to the potter’s loud lament.
  3. As a horse’s jaw grinds, so let the kiln grind
  4. to powder all the pots inside.
  5. And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch,
  6. come and cast cruel spells; hurt both these men and their handiwork.
  7. Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs—
  8. all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed:
  9. let them make sad havoc of the pots and overthrow the kiln,
  10. and let the potters see the mischief and be grieved;
  11. but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft.
  12. And if anyone of them stoops to peer in, let all his face
  13. be burned up, that all men may learn to deal honestly.