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can someone explain what the fuck hesiod is talking about here?
Do not stand upright, with your face turned toward the sun, when you urinate.
Be mindful [memnēmenos] to do so after it [the sun] sets and before it rises.
And if you are traveling [at nighttime], do not urinate either on the road or off the road,

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and do not get naked. The nights belong to the blessed ones [the gods].
The godly person, who knows what is sensible, does it squatting.
Or else, he goes to the wall of an enclosed court.
Do not expose your genitals, splattered with semen, inside your house
when you approach the fireplace. Avoid this.