Meagher 1995, p. 56. In his notes to Hesiod's Works and Days (p. 168) M.L. West has surmised that Erasmus may have confused the story of Pandora with that found elsewhere of a box which was opened by Psyche.
William Watson Baker, The Adages of Erasmus, University of Toronto 2001, 1 i 31, p. 32
Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux (1714 edition), "Pandore", pp. 10–11
Count Leopoldo Cicognara, Le premier siècle de la calcographie; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, Venice 1837, pp. 532–533. Archived 2 January 2023 at the Wayback Machine
West 1988, pp. 39–40: "For formerly the tribes of men on earth lived remote from ills, without harsh toil and grievous sicknesses that are deadly to men. But the woman unstopped the jar and let it all out, and brought grim cares upon mankind. Only Hope remained there inside in her secure dwelling, under the lip of the jar, and did not fly out, because the woman put the lid back in time by the providence of Zeus the cloud-gatherer who bears the aegis. But for the rest. countless troubles roam among men: full of ills is the earth, and full the sea. Sickness visits men by day, and others by night, uninvited, bringing ill to mortals silently, because Zeus the resourceful deprived them of voice. Thus there is no way to evade the purpose of Zeus."; compare Hesiod, Works and Days90–105.
Count Leopoldo Cicognara, Le premier siècle de la calcographie; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, Venice 1837, pp. 532–533. Archived 2 January 2023 at the Wayback Machine
