preposterously long beard, and an ashen staff in his hand. However, Wilhelm Crönert argued that this story is actually derived from one of the satires...

the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women", Studia Classica Israelica, 10: 12–27. Crönert, W. (1907), "Nachprüfung der Berliner Reste der Hesiodischen Kataloge"...