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Maxims of Theognis: Beast-slaying Artemis, daughter of Jove
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Beast-slaying Artemis, daughter of Jove, whose statue Agamemnon set up, when in swift-ships he was sailing to Troy, hear me at-my-prayer, and avert from me evil fates. Little to thee, O goddess, this, but much to me.
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: Beast-slaying Artemis, daughter of Jove.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/113/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Beast-slaying Artemis, daughter of Jove.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/113/.
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