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Maxims of Theognis: Never, Cyrnus, kindly-treat an exile
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Never, Cyrnus, kindly-treat an exile on the ground of hope, for not even, if he has returned home, does he become any more the same.
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: Never, Cyrnus, kindly-treat an exile.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/164/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Never, Cyrnus, kindly-treat an exile.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/164/.
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