"Toilful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hesiod is sufficient to prove that the word PONEROS (bad) has the same sense as 'laborious' or 'ill-fated'; for in the "Great Eoiae" he represents Alcmene as saying to Heracles: 'My son, truly Zeus your father begot you to be the most toilful as the most excellent...'; and again: 'The Fates (made) you the most toilful ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod |
