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. Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth,
  2. how kindly, it seems, you are to some,
  3. and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry.
  1. Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as
  2. the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life,
  3. observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers;
  4. for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned.
  1. Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you: