Hesiod, creator; Homer, creator; Evelyn-White, Hugh G.
(Hugh Gerard), d. 1924, translator
as he gnashes, and his eyes are like glowing fire, and he bristles the hair on his mane and around his neck—, like him the son of Zeus leaped from his horse chariot. And when the dark-winged whirring grasshopper, perched on a green shoot, begins to sing of summer to men—
his food and drink is the dainty dew—and all day long from dawn pours forth his voice in the deadliest heat, when Sirius scorches the flesh (then the beard grows upon the millet which men sow in summer), when the crude grapes
which Dionysus gave to men— a joy and a sorrow both—begin to color, in that season they fought and loud rose the clamor. As two lions[*](The conception is similar to that of the sculptured group at Athens of Two Lions devouring a Bull (Dickens,Cat. of the Acropolis Museum,No. 3).)on either side of a slain deer spring at one another in fury, and there is a fearful snarling and a clashing also of teeth—,
like vultures with crooked talons and hooked beak that fight and scream aloud on a high rock over a mountain goat or fat wild-deer which some active man has shot with an arrow from the string, and himself has wandered away elsewhere,