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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.38.2
Ancient Greek
p. 23838 Μοσχίωνος· συνέχεια
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 23938 Moschion, continued
But when time, which gives birth to everything and nourishes it, changed mortal life to its opposite, whether drawing on Prometheus’s care, or on necessity, or through long experience making nature itself the teacher, then the grain of holy Demeter was discovered for cultivated food, and Bacchus’s sweet spring was found. Earth, once unsown, was now ploughed by oxen drawing the yoke. People fortified towns and built sheltered houses; they brought a life grown wild into a civilized way of living. From then on law ordained that the dead be covered in tombs and that dust be allotted to unburied corpses, leaving no visible reminder of the impious feasting of the past.272
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