Hesiod

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Hēsiodus, from Ancient Greek Ἡσίοδος (Hēsíodos).

• enPR: hēʹsē-əd, hĕsʹē-əd
• IPA^(key): /ˈhiː.si.əd/, /ˈhɛs.i.əd/

Hesiod

1. Ancient Greek poet and rhapsodist of the 8th century BCE, known as the first author of didactic verse.

• Hesiodic, Hesiodian, Hesiodean

• “Hesiod, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Hesiodic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 2810, column 3.
• “Hesiod”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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