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Maxims of Theognis: It behoves a man lying
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
It behoves a man lying in severe griefs to take heart, and to ask deliverance from them at the hands of the immortal gods.
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: It behoves a man lying.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/210/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: It behoves a man lying.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/210/.
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