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ATHEN. XI 491 CD καὶ ὁ τὴν εἰς Ἡσίοδον δὲ ἀναφερομένην ποιήσας Ἀστρονομίαν αἰεὶ Πελειάδας αὐτὰς λέγει· τὰς δὲ βροτοὶ καλέουσι Πελειάδας.

And the author of “The Astronomy”, which is attributed forsooth to Hesiod, always calls them (the Pleiades) Peleiades: ‘but mortals call them Peleiades’;

Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914)

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English · Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), pp. 201. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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— —καὶ πάλιν· χειμέριαι δύνουσι Πελειάδες.

and again, ‘the stormy Peleiades go down’;

Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914)

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Published passage: Hesiod, Astronomy, fragment 1; Athenaeus 11.491d

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Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), pp. 201. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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— —καὶ πάλιν· τῆμος ἀποκρύπτουσι Πελειάδες.

and again, ‘then the Peleiades hide away....’

Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914)

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Published passage: Hesiod, Astronomy, fragment 1; Athenaeus 11.491d

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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 195; ancient running text. View original source ↗

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English · Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), pp. 202. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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occasum matutinum vergiliarum Hesiodus — nam huius quoque nomine exstat astrologia — tradidit fieri, cum aequinoctium autumni conficeretur, Thales XXV die ab aequinoctio

Hesiod—for under his name, also, we have a treatise extant on the Science of the Stars—has stated that the morning setting of the Vergiliæ takes place at the moment of the autumnal equinox; whereas Thales, we find, makes it the twenty-fifth day after the equinox.

John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley · The Natural History of Pliny, vol. IV (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856), p. 76, book XVIII.57 (modern XVIII.213)

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Pliny the Elder
Natural History · XVIII.213 (XVIII.57 in Bostock and Riley)
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Pliny, Natural History XVIII.57 (modern XVIII.213)
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occasum matutinum vergiliarum Hesiodus — nam huius quoque nomine exstat astrologia — tradidit fieri, cum aequinoctium autumni conficeretur, Thales XXV die ab aequinoctio
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The excerpt stops after the date attributed to Thales, exactly where the retained Latin stops. The following dates attributed to Anaximander and Euctemon are omitted. Only the terminal comma is changed to a full stop.

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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 195; ancient running text. View original source ↗

English: John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley · The Natural History of Pliny, vol. IV (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856), p. 76, book XVIII.57 (modern XVIII.213) Published translation ↗

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English · John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley. The Natural History of Pliny, vol. IV (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856), p. 76, book XVIII.57 (modern XVIII.213). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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French · Émile Littré. Pline l’Ancien, Histoire naturelle (1848–1850), XVIII57 (modern XVIII213). Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 202. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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SCHOL. ARAT. 172 (2—4 ebend. 254 Ἡ. ἐν τῆι ἀστρικῆι αὑτοῦ βίβλωι) Ἡ. γάρ φησι περὶ αὐτῶν· νύμφαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι Φαισύλη ἠδὲ Κορωνὶς ἐυστέφανός τε Κλέεια Φαιώ θ’ ἱμερόεσσα καὶ Εὐδώρη τανύπεπλος, ἃς Ὑάδας καλέουσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ φῦλ’ ἀνθρώπων.

Hesiod in his Book about Stars tells us their names as follows: ‘Nymphs like the Graces , Phaesyle and Coronis and rich-crowned Cleeia and lovely Phaco and long-robed Eudora, whom the tribes of men upon the earth call Hyades.’

Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914)

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Scholia on the Phaenomena · 172
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Published passage: Hesiod, Astronomy, fragment 2; scholia on Aratus 254

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[ERATOSTH.] Catast. 1 Ἄρκτου μεγάλης. ταύτην Ἡσίοδός φησι Λυκάονος θυγατέρα ἐν Ἀρκαδίαι οἰκεῖν, ἑλέσθαι δὲ μετὰ Ἀρτέμιδος τὴν περὶ τὰς θήρας ἀγωγὴν ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι ποιεῖσθαι· φθαρεῖσαν δὲ ὑπὸ Διὸς ἐμμεῖναι λανθάνουσαν τὴν θεόν· φωραθῆναι δὲ ὕστερον ἐπίτοκον ἤδη οὖσαν ὀφθεῖσαν ὑπ’ αὐτῆς λουομένην· ἐφ’ ὧι ὀργισθεῖσαν τὴν θεὸν ἀποθηριῶσαι αὐτήν· καὶ οὕτως τεκεῖν ἄρκτον γενομένην τὸν κληθέντα Ἀρκάδα. οὖσαν δ’ ἐν τῶι ὄρει θηρευθῆναι ὑπὸ αἰπόλων τινῶν καὶ παραδοθῆναι μετὰ τοῦ βρέφους τῶι Λυκάονι· μετὰ χρόνον δέ τινα δόξαι εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὸ τοῦ Διὸς ἄβατον [ἱερὸν] ἀγνοήσασαν τὸν νόμον. ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ διωκομένην καὶ τῶν Ἀρκάδων, καὶ ἀναιρεῖσθαι μέλλουσαν διὰ τὸν εἰρημένον νόμον ὁ Ζεὺς διὰ τὴν συγγένειαν αὐτὴν ἐξείλετο καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄστροις αὐτὴν ἔθηκεν. Ἄρκτον δὲ αὐτὴν ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ συμβεβηκὸς αὐτῆι σύμπτωμα. COMM. ARAT. Suppl. 8 p. 574 M περὶ τούτου λέγεται, ὅτι Ἀρκάς ἐστιν ὁ 〈ἐκ〉 Καλλιστοῦς καὶ Διὸς γεγονώς· ὤικησε δὲ περὶ τὸ Λύκαιον. φθείραντος αὐτὴν Διὸς οὐ προσποιησάμενος ὁ Λυκάων τὸν Δία ἐξένιζεν, ὥς φησιν Ἡ., καὶ τὸ βρέφος κατακόψας παρέθηκεν ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν. [APOLLOD.] bibl. III 100 W. Εὔμηλος [fr. 14 K.] δὲ καί τινες ἕτεροι λέγουσι Λυκάονι καὶ θυγατέρα Καλλιστὼ γενέσθαι· Ἡ. μὲν γὰρ αὐτὴν μίαν εἶναι τῶν νυμφῶν λέγει, Ἄσιος [fr. 9 K.] δὲ Νυκτέως, Φερεκύδης δὲ Κητέως. HYGIN. astr. II 1.

The Great Bear.]—Hesiod says she (Callisto) was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia. She chose to occupy herself with wild-beasts in the mountains together with Artemis, and, when she was seduced by Zeus, continued some time undetected by the goddess, but afterwards, when she was already with child, was seen by her bathing and so discovered. Upon this, the goddess was enraged and changed her into a beast. Thus she became a bear and gave birth to a son called Arcas. But while she was in the mountains, she was hunted by some goat-herds and given up with her babe to Lycaon. Some while after, she thought fit to go into the forbidden precinct of Zeus, not knowing the law, and being pursued by her own son and the Arcadians, was about to be killed because of the said law; but Zeus delivered her because of her connection with him and put her among the stars, giving her the name Bear because of the misfortune which had befallen her.

The story goes that he is Arcas the son of Callisto and Zeus, and he lived in the country about Lycaeum. After Zeus had seduced Callisto, Lycaon, pretending not to know of the matter, entertained Zeus, as Hesiod says, and set before him on the table the babe which he had cut up.

But Eumelus and some others say that Lycaon had also a daughter Callisto; though Hesiod says she was one of the nymphs, Asius that she was a daughter of Nycteus, and Pherecydes that she was a daughter of Ceteus.

Hugh G. Evelyn-White; James George Frazer · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914). Apollodorus, The Library (Loeb Classical Library 121–122; William Heinemann, 1921)

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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 195–196; ancient running text.
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The first two witness passages are Evelyn-White’s translation; the final Apollodorus sentence is Frazer’s. The terminal Hyginus reference contains no quoted ancient text

Published passage: Hesiod, Astronomy, fragment 3 (Eratosthenes and the Aratus commentary), followed by Apollodorus, Library 3.8.2

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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 195–196; ancient running text. View original source ↗

English: Hugh G. Evelyn-White; James George Frazer · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914). Apollodorus, The Library (Loeb Classical Library 121–122; William Heinemann, 1921). Published translation ↗

Additional translation sources: Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Astronomy, fragment 3 · James George Frazer · Library 3.8.2

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English · Hugh G. Evelyn-White; James George Frazer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914). Apollodorus, The Library (Loeb Classical Library 121–122; William Heinemann, 1921).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Additional translation sources: Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Astronomy, fragment 3 · James George Frazer · Library 3.8.2
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[ERATOSTH.] cat. 32 Ὠρίωνος. τοῦτον Ἡ. φησιν Εὐρυάλης τῆς Μίνωος καὶ Ποσειδῶνος εἶναι, δοθῆναι δὲ αὐτῶι δωρεάν, ὥστε ἐπὶ τῶν κυμάτων πορεύεσθαι καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. ἐλθόντα δὲ αὐτὸν εἰς Χίον Μερόπην τὴν Οἰνοπίωνος βιάσασθαι οἰνωθέντα, γνόντα δὲ τὸν Οἰνοπίωνα καὶ χαλεπῶς ἐνεγκόντα τὴν ὕβριν ἐκτυφλῶσαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἐκ τῆς χώρας ἐκβαλεῖν. ἐλθόντα δὲ εἰς Λῆμνον ἀλητεύοντα Ἡφαίστωι συμμῖξαι, ὃς αὐτὸν ἐλεήσας δίδωσιν αὐτῶι Κηδαλίωνα τὸν αὑτοῦ [οἰκεῖον] οἰκέτην, ὅπως ὁδηγῆι [καὶ ἡγῆται αὐτοῦ]· ὃν λαβὼν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἔφερε σημαίνοντα τὰς ὁδούς· ἐλθὼν δ’ ἐπὶ τὰς ἀνατολὰς καὶ Ἡλίωι συμμίξας δοκεῖ ὑγιασθῆναι καὶ οὕτως ἐπὶ τὸν Οἰνοπίωνα ἐλθεῖν πάλιν, τιμωρίαν αὐτῶι ἐπιθήσων· ὁ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν ὑπὸ γῆν ἐκέκρυπτο. ἀπελπίσας δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου ζήτησιν ἀπῆλθεν εἰς Κρήτην καὶ περὶ τὰς θήρας διῆγε κυνηγετῶν τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος παρούσης καὶ τῆς Λητοῦς, καὶ δοκεῖ ἀπειλήσασθαι ὡς πᾶν θηρίον ἀνελεῖν τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς γιγνομένων· θυμωθεῖσα δὲ αὐτῶι Γῆ ἀνῆκε σκορπίον εὐμεγέθη, ὑφ’ οὗ τῶι κέντρωι πληγεὶς ἀπώλετο· ὅθεν διὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ ἀνδρίαν ἐν τοῖς ἄστροις αὐτὸν ἔθηκεν ὁ Ζεὺς ὑπὸ Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ Λητοῦς ἀξιωθείς, ὁμοίως καὶ τὸ θηρίον τοῦ εἶναι μνημόσυνον 〈αὐτῶν〉 καὶ τῆς πράξεως.

Orion.]—Hesiod says that he was the son of Euryale, the daughter of Minos, and of Poseidon, and that there was given him as a gift the power of walking upon the waves as though upon land. When he was come to Chios, he outraged Merope, the daughter of Oenopion, being drunken; but Oenopion when he learned of it was greatly vexed at the outrage and blinded him and cast him out of the country. Then he came to Lemnos as a beggar and there met Hephaestus who took pity on him and gave him Cedalion his own servant to guide him. So Orion took Cedalion upon his shoulders and used to carry him about while he pointed out the roads. Then he came to the east and appears to have met Helius (the Sun) and to have been healed, and so returned back again to Oenopion to punish him; but Oenopion was hidden away by his people underground. Being disappointed, then, in his search for the king, Orion went away to Crete and spent his time hunting in company with Artemis and Leto. It seems that he threatened to kill every beast there was on earth; whereupon, in her anger, Earth sent up against him a scorpion of very great size by which he was stung and so perished. After this Zeus, at one prayer of Artemis and Leto, put him among the stars, because of his manliness, and the scorpion also as a memorial of him and of what had occurred.

Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914)

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Published passage: Hesiod, Astronomy, fragment 4; Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterisms 32

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DIODOR. IV 85, 4 ἔνιοι δὲ λέγουσι σεισμῶν μεγάλων γενομένων διαρραγῆναι τὸν αὐχένα τῆς ἠπείρου καὶ γενέσθαι τὸν πορθμόν, διειργούσης τῆς θαλάσσης τὴν ἤπειρον ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου. Ἡ. δὲ ὁ ποιητής φησι τοὐναντίον, ἀναπεπταμένου τοῦ πελάγους Ὠρίωνα προσχῶσαι τὸ κατὰ τὴν Πελωρίδα κείμενον ἀκρωτήριον καὶ τὸ τέμενος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος κατασκευάσαι, τιμώμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγχωρίων διαφερόντως. ταῦτα δὲ διαπραξάμενον εἰς Εὔβοιαν μεταναστῆναι κἀκεῖ κατοικῆσαι· διὰ δὲ τὴν δόξαν ἐν τοῖς κατ’ οὐρανὸν ἄστροις καταριθμηθέντα τυχεῖν ἀθανάτου μνήμης.

Some say that great earthquakes occurred, which broke through the neck of land and formed the straits , the sea parting the mainland from the island. But Hesiod, the poet, says just the opposite: that the sea was open, but Orion piled up the promontory by Peloris, and founded the close of Poseidon which is especially esteemed by the people thereabouts. When he had finished this, he went away to Euboea and settled there, and because of his renown was taken into the number of the stars in heaven, and won undying remembrance.

Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914)

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Published passage: Hesiod, Astronomy, fragment 5; Diodorus 4.85.4

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English · Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library 57; William Heinemann, 1914).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Italian · Giuseppe Compagnoni. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), pp. 202. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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