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Maxims of Theognis: Respect your friends, and flee
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Respect your friends, and flee oaths that-ruin-men: but avoid, and give-heed-to, the wrath of immortals.
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: Respect your friends, and flee.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/175/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Respect your friends, and flee.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/175/.
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