Social Commentaries
Fragment XVI: Kurnus, our state is pregnant to produce
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
Social Commentaries
Kurnus, our state is pregnant to produce
“The avenger pf oppression and abuse ;
The birth (believe me) will not tarry long:
For the same course of outrage and of wrong
Which ruin’d the Magnesian state of old,
That very same we witness and behold.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XVI: Kurnus, our state is pregnant to produce.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/17/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XVI: Kurnus, our state is pregnant to produce.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/17/.
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