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Maxims of Theognis: King Phœbus, when the goddess
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
King Phœbus, when the goddess, august Latona, having grasped with her hands the taper palm, bare thee most beauteous of immortals at the circular lake, boundless Delos was all filled with ambrosial odour, and the vast earth smiled, whilst the deep wide-waters of the gray brine rejoiced.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Literal prose translation by the Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856), printed as prose: the plain-sense companion to Frere’s verse version. Banks’s hyphenated compounds are his own.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: King Phœbus, when the goddess.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/112/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: King Phœbus, when the goddess.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/112/.
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