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Maxims of Theognis: Do not ever on a
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Do not ever on a slight pretext ruin a man that is a friend, trusting, Cyrnus, to a harsh slander. If a man in every instance should be wrath at the faults of his friends, never would men be in-concord or in-friendship one with the other. For faults follow-after mortal men, Cyrnus: but the gods choose not to endure them.
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: Do not ever on a.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/161/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Do not ever on a.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/161/.
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