More from Hesiod
- Works and Days (c. 700 BC), Line 240
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand
To follow what is out of reach.Frg. 61 M.-W. (tr. F. C. Babbitt, 1939); assignment to the Catalogue conjecturalHe harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Works and Days (c. 700 BC)




