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For if aught untoward happen in the township, the neighbours come ungirt, the kinsmen gird themselves.

Alexander William Mair

For if aught untoward happen in the township, the neighbours come ungirt, the kinsmen gird themselves.

Evil one may attain easily and in abundance: smooth is the way and it dewlleth very nigh. But in front of virtue have the dealthless gods set sweat: long is the way thereto and steep and rough at firs...

Alexander William Mair

Evil one may attain easily and in abundance: smooth is the way and it dewlleth very nigh. But in front of virtue have the dealthless gods set sweat: long is the way thereto and steep and rough at firs...

About Author
Alexander William Mair (9 June 1875–13 November 1928) was a 20th century Scottish scholar who was the Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh. He was an authority on the works of the Greek poet Hesiod.

So potter with potter contendeth: the hewer of wood with the hewer of wood: the beggar is jealous of the beggar, the ministrel is jealous of the ministrel.

Alexander William Mair

So potter with potter contendeth: the hewer of wood with the hewer of wood: the beggar is jealous of the beggar, the ministrel is jealous of the ministrel.