After, with Saturn having been sent into dark Tartarus 113
The world was beneath Jove, the silvery child came up,
worse than gold, more precious than yellow bronze. 115
Jupiter brought together the time of ancient spring
and through winter, and summer, and variable autumn
and brief spring he separated the year in four seasons
then was the first time the air, having been burned by dry heat,
burned white, and icicles hung, having been sharpened by the wind 120
Then was the first time men went under houses; the houses are caves,
and dense bushes, and sticks, having been bound by bark.
Then was the first time cerean grain was covered by long ditches
and the having been bound bullocks groaned from the yoke.
The third age of bronze came up after that, and offspring, 125
more fierce by character and more prepared to rough arms
nevertheless not wicked; after is the last made of hard iron.
Every sin of the baser vein burst into the eternity constantly
modesty and truth and faith fled;
and into the place of which came up deceits and and robberies and 130
ambush and force, and the evil love of having.
They were giving the sails to the winds, and the sailor was not yet knowing the winds well.
And the keels, which first had stood (plu-perf.) upon
the high mountains, danced about in the strange waves
and the careful surveyor sealed the public ground, just as 135
the sunlight of the sun and breezes before, by means of a spacious limit
And not only the soil was being asked for rich cornfields and the nourishment having been owed
but humanity delved into the organs of the soil,
The resources are dug up, and which (resources) he rebuilt and moved into the underworld
the provocation of evils. 140
And now had come out harmful iron, and gold, more harmful than iron,
it sent forth strife and who fights with both,
and with bloody hands clashing rattling weapons.
men subsist by plunder, no guest was safe from host,
was not safe from son-in-law, also, the grace of brothers is rare; 145
Man threaten the death of spouses, they having been married.
Terrible stepmothers mix lurid aconite,
Before the day, son consults astrologers about fatherly years:
Piety having been conquered is thrown out, and the Starry maiden,
the last of the divinities, left behind a world dripping with murder. 150
The world was beneath Jove, the silvery child came up,
worse than gold, more precious than yellow bronze. 115
Jupiter brought together the time of ancient spring
and through winter, and summer, and variable autumn
and brief spring he separated the year in four seasons
then was the first time the air, having been burned by dry heat,
burned white, and icicles hung, having been sharpened by the wind 120
Then was the first time men went under houses; the houses are caves,
and dense bushes, and sticks, having been bound by bark.
Then was the first time cerean grain was covered by long ditches
and the having been bound bullocks groaned from the yoke.
The third age of bronze came up after that, and offspring, 125
more fierce by character and more prepared to rough arms
nevertheless not wicked; after is the last made of hard iron.
Every sin of the baser vein burst into the eternity constantly
modesty and truth and faith fled;
and into the place of which came up deceits and and robberies and 130
ambush and force, and the evil love of having.
They were giving the sails to the winds, and the sailor was not yet knowing the winds well.
And the keels, which first had stood (plu-perf.) upon
the high mountains, danced about in the strange waves
and the careful surveyor sealed the public ground, just as 135
the sunlight of the sun and breezes before, by means of a spacious limit
And not only the soil was being asked for rich cornfields and the nourishment having been owed
but humanity delved into the organs of the soil,
The resources are dug up, and which (resources) he rebuilt and moved into the underworld
the provocation of evils. 140
And now had come out harmful iron, and gold, more harmful than iron,
it sent forth strife and who fights with both,
and with bloody hands clashing rattling weapons.
men subsist by plunder, no guest was safe from host,
was not safe from son-in-law, also, the grace of brothers is rare; 145
Man threaten the death of spouses, they having been married.
Terrible stepmothers mix lurid aconite,
Before the day, son consults astrologers about fatherly years:
Piety having been conquered is thrown out, and the Starry maiden,
the last of the divinities, left behind a world dripping with murder. 150