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Maxims of Theognis: Many mean men are rich
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Many mean men are rich, look you; and noble men are poor, yet with these we will not exchange their wealth for our excellence: for the latter is ever secure, but riches now one and now another of men possesses.
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: Many mean men are rich.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/159/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Many mean men are rich.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/159/.
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