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Maxims of Theognis: But to whatsoever man riches
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
But to whatsoever man riches shall have come from Jove, and by just means, and with clean hands, they remain ever stedfastly. Though if a man unjustly shall acquire beyond what-is-proper with covetous spirit, or by an oath, having taken beyond what is just, at the moment he seems to bear off some gain, but in the end again there is ill, for the mind of the gods is wont to be superior.
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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MLA
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: But to whatsoever man riches.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/140/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: But to whatsoever man riches.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/140/.
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