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Maxims of Theognis: You have not escaped-my-notice as
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
You have not escaped-my-notice as you walked along the road, on which even aforetime you used to drive, stealing my friendship. Away with you, hateful to gods, and faithless to men, you who had in your bosom a chilly spotted snake.
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: You have not escaped-my-notice as.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/223/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: You have not escaped-my-notice as.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/223/.
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