He was charged with explaining this line as an injunction to refrain from no work, dishonest or disgraceful, but to do anything for gain.““No work is a disgrace, but idleness is a disgrace.”
1”Hes. WD 309
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Again, his accuser alleged that he selected from the most famous poets the most immoral passages, and used them as evidence in teaching his companions to be tyrants and malefactors: for example, Hesiod's line:
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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