Which of the following lines in Hesiod’s Works and Days alludes to social conditions in Boeotia?

a. When you hear the call of the crane/Coming from the clouds . . ./That’s the sign for plowing.”
b. “That cry bites the heart/Of the man with no ox.”
c. “Soon as you get the first signs for plowing/Get a move on.”
d. “Sow your fallow land while the soil’s still light.”


Answer: b

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