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Maxims of Theognis: Make-too-much haste in nothing, the
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Make-too-much haste in nothing, the mean is best of all: and thus, Cyrnus, thou shalt have excellence, which too it is hard to get.
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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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Make-too-much haste in nothing, the.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/165/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Make-too-much haste in nothing, the.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/165/.
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