Hesiod. Works and Days. (Lines 805-809).

Look about you very carefully and throw out Demeter's holy grain upon the well-rolled (*H43) threshing floor on the seventh of the mid-month. Let the woodman cut beams for house building and plenty of ships' timbers, such as are suitable for ships. On the fourth day begin to build narrow ships.

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