Social Commentaries
Fragment XXV: I envy not these sumptuous obsequies
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
Social Commentaries
I envy not these sumptuous obsequies,
The stately car, the purple canopies ;
Much better pleas’d am I, remaining here,
With cheaper equipage and better cheer.
A couch of thorns, or an embroider’d bed,
Are matters of indifference to the dead.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XXV: I envy not these sumptuous obsequies.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/25/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XXV: I envy not these sumptuous obsequies.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/25/.
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