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Maxims of Theognis: None like me can I
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
None like me can I find, when I seek a trusty associate, in whom there is no guile. But when I have come to the touch-stone I am rubbed beside baser metal, as gold beside lead, and a mind of superiority is in me.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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: None like me can I.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/181/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: None like me can I.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/181/.
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