Note 38 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
The beauteous-tressed Hours.] The Hours, according to Homer, made the toilette of Venus:
The smooth strong gust of Zephyr wafted her Through billows of the many-waving sea In the soft foam: the Hours, whose locks are bound With gold, received her blithely, and enrobed With heavenly vestments: her immortal head They wreathed with golden fillet, beautiful, And aptly framed: her perforated ears They hung with jewels of the mountain-brass And precious gold: her tender neck, and breast Of dazzling white, they deck’d with chains of gold, Such as the Hours wear braided with their locks. Hymn to Venus.