Hesiod. Works and Days. (Lines 814-818).

Again, few know that the twenty-seventh of the month is best for opening a wine-jar, and putting yokes on the necks of oxen and mules and swift-footed horses, and for hauling a swift ship of many thwarts down to the sparkling sea; few call it by its right name.

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