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Maxims of Theognis: Now ’tis meet that one
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Now ’tis meet that one should be invited to a banquet, and sit beside a worthy man, versed in all wisdom, so as to understand him whensoever he shall utter aught-of-wisdom, that so you may be instructed, and go home to your house with this gain.
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: Now ’tis meet that one.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/213/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Now ’tis meet that one.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/213/.
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