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Maxims of Theognis: Practise yourself about virtue: and
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Practise yourself about virtue: and let what is just be dear to you, nor let gain, when it is base, get the upper hand of you.
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: Practise yourself about virtue: and.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/193/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Practise yourself about virtue: and.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/193/.
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