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Maxims of Theognis: I am as it were
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
I am as it were a well-bred racing mare, but I carry a very mean man: and this to me is most vexatious. Often ere now have I been ready to burst the bridle and flee, having thrust from me my mean charioteer.
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: I am as it were.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/149/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: I am as it were.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/149/.
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