Note 5 — BOOK IV.
Rowland Smith translation
Hesiod extends the crow's life to 270 years. The passage referred to has been preserved by Plutarch:·—
"Έννέατοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη Aνδρῶν ἡβώντων."
"Servatura diu parem Cornicis vetulæ temporibus Lycem."—Hor, iv. Od. xiii. 34.