Do you not know that Salmoneus too was punished by the gods for this, because, although he was a human being, he tried to be Zeus?

It is hard to be good.

And do not be storm-tossed in your mood at a dinner with many guests.

No talk is ever entirely gotten rid of, once many people talk it up: it too is some god.

And inside the house do not reveal your genitals besmirched with intercourse near the hearth, but avoid this.

And do not urinate while you are walking, on the road or off the road: it is crouching that the god-fearing man who knows wisdom does it, or after he has approached the wall of a well-fenced courtyard.

whoever crosses a river, unwashed in evil and in his hands, against him the gods feel resentment, and they give him pains afterwards.

And do not sow offspring when you come home from an ill-spoken funeral, but from a dinner of the immortals.

Bees swarmed around the infant Hesiod's cradle, in which he was being carried about, and many came to sit upon his mouth, either drinking his breath, which was already sweet at that age, or signifying that he would be eloquent and such as we now recognize him to have been.

Hesiod was pasturing his flocks on Helicon. They say that some women, nine of them, came and plcked twigs from the Heliconian laurel and fed him with them, and in this way he took his fill of wisdom and poetry.