(ll. 44-50) But when he becomes violent and fierce unspeakably, the arrows of Zeus lay him low....  Only his soul is left on the holy earth, and that fits gibbering about a small unformed den.  And it comes enfeebled to sacrifices beneath the broad-pathed earth.... and it lies....’

((LACUNA —­ Traces of 37 following lines.))

Fragment #69 —­ Tzetzes (47), Exeg.  Iliad. 68. 19H:  Agamemnon and Menelaus likewise according to Hesiod and Aeschylus are regarded as the sons of Pleisthenes, Atreus’ son.  And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.

Fragment #70 —­
Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles’ Electra, 539: 
`And she (Helen) bare to Menelaus, famous with the spear,
Hermione and her youngest-born, Nicostratus, a scion of Ares.’

Fragment #71 —­
Pausanias, i. 43. 1: 
I know that Hesiod in the “Catalogue of Women” represented that
Iphigeneia was not killed but, by the will of Artemis, became
Hecate (48).

Fragment #72 —­
Eustathius, Hom. 13. 44. sq: 
Butes, it is said, was a son of Poseidon:  so Hesiod in the
“Catalogue”.

Fragment #73 —­
Pausanias, ii. 6. 5: 
Hesiod represented Sicyon as the son of Erechtheus.

Fragment #74 —­
Plato, Minos, p. 320.  D: 
`(Minos) who was most kingly of mortal kings and reigned over
very many people dwelling round about, holding the sceptre of
Zeus wherewith he ruled many.’

Fragment #75 —­
Hesychius (49): 
The athletic contest in memory of Eurygyes Melesagorus says that
Androgeos the son of Minos was called Eurygyes, and that a
contest in his honour is held near his tomb at Athens in the
Ceramicus.  And Hesiod writes:  `And Eurygyes (50), while yet a
lad in holy Athens...’

Fragment #76 —­ Plutarch, Theseus 20:  There are many tales.... about Ariadne...., how that she was deserted by Theseua for love of another woman:  `For strong love for Aegle the daughter of Panopeus overpowered him.’  For Hereas of Megara says that Peisistratus removed this verse from the works of Hesiod.

Athenaeus (51), xiii. 557 A: 
But Hesiod says that Theseus wedded both Hippe and Aegle
lawfully.

Fragment #77 —­
Strabo, ix. p. 393: 
The snake of Cychreus:  Hesiod says that it was brought up by
Cychreus, and was driven out by Eurylochus as defiling the
island, but that Demeter received it into Eleusis, and that it
became her attendant.

Fragment #78 —­
Argument I. to the Shield of Heracles: 
But Apollonius of Rhodes says that it (the “Shield of Heracles”)
is Hesiod’s both from the general character of the work and from
the fact that in the “Catalogue” we again find Iolaus as
charioteer of Heracles.

Fragment #79 —­ Scholiast on Soph.  Trach., 266:  (ll. 1-6) `And fair-girdled Stratonica conceived and bare in the palace Eurytus her well-loved son.  Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus, a scion of Ares.  And after these Antiope the queen, daughter of the aged son of Nauboius, bare her youngest child, golden-haired Iolea.’