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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules

Note 127 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.

George Chapman translation

And wed the fifth of her expanded bloom.] She begins to bloom in her twelfth year. Let her wed in the fifth year of her puberty; that is, in her sixteenth. Guietus.

Robinson, not considering the difference of climate, supposes that the fourteenth year is the first of her puberty, and that she is directed to wed in her nineteenth.

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