Hesiod Works and Days, 289-90

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“The gods made sweat the price for virtue.”

 

 

τῆς δ’ ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ προπάροιθεν ἔθηκαν

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Original translations of famous words from Ancient Greece and Rome

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