Hesiod. Works and Days. (Lines 54-59).

`Son of Iapetus, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire -- a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.'

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Greece - Ancient - Poetry/Religion - Greeks - Greek translation