Note 122 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
Decline a slender bark.] Αινειν, commend. This passage is quoted by Plutarch in illustration of words used in a different sense from what they seem to import. Praise means refuse. The same idiom occurs in Virgil’s second Georgic:
Commend the large excess Of spacious vineyards: cultivate the less. Dryden.