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Maxims of Theognis: A voiceless messenger stirs up
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
A voiceless messenger stirs up, O Cyrnus, war-of-many tears, seen clearly as it is from a conspicuous mountain-peak. Nay, then, place bridles on your swift-footed steeds, for methinks that they will encounter hostile men: nor long the way which they will traverse between us and the foe, unless the gods deceive my judgment.
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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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: A voiceless messenger stirs up.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/209/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: A voiceless messenger stirs up.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/209/.
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