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Maxims of Theognis: Do not, goading me perforce
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Do not, goading me perforce, and against my will, drive me under the waggon’s yoke, drawing me, Cyrnus, too much into friendship.
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, goading me perforce.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/173/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Do not, goading me perforce.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/173/.
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