Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS

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Fragment #1 -- Galen, de plac. Hipp. et Plat. i. 266: `And then it was Zeus took away sense from the heart of Athamas.'

Fragment #2 -- Scholiast on Homer, Od. vii. 104: `They grind the yellow grain at the mill.'

Fragment #3 -- Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. ii. 1: `Then first in Delos did I and Homer, singers both, raise our strain -- stitching song in new hymns -- Phoebus Apollo with the golden sword, whom Leto bare.'

Fragment #4 -- Julian, Misopogon, p. 369: `But starvation on a handful is a cruel thing.'

Fragment #5 -- Servius on Vergil, Aen. iv. 484: Hesiod says that these Hesperides.... ....daughters of Night, guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean: `Aegle and Erythea and ox-eyed Hesperethusa.' (1)

Fragment #6 -- Plato, Republic, iii. 390 E: `Gifts move the gods, gifts move worshipful princes.'

Fragment #7 -- (2) Clement of Alexandria, Strom. v. p. 256: `On the seventh day again the bright light of the sun....'

Fragment #8 -- Apollonius, Lex. Hom.: `He brought pure water and mixed it with Ocean's streams.'

Fragment #9 -- Stephanus of Byzantium: `Aspledon and Clymenus and god-like Amphidocus.' (sons of Orchomenus).

Fragment #10 -- Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. iii. 64: `Telemon never sated with battle first brought light to our comrades by slaying blameless Melanippe, destroyer of men, own sister of the golden-girdled queen.'

ENDNOTES: (1) Cf. Scholion on Clement, "Protrept." i. p. 302. (2) This line may once have been read in the text of "Works and Days" after l. 771.

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