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Maxims of Theognis: Many men, look you, being
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Many men, look you, being senseless, has fulness ruined, for ’tis hard to understand moderation, when good things are present.
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: Many men, look you, being.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/256/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Many men, look you, being.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/256/.
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