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Maxims of Theognis: How hath our spirit had
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
How hath our spirit had the heart to sing to the flute-player? but from the forum is seen the limit of the land, which maintains with her fruits men wearing at feasts and on auburn locks purple garlands. Nay, come now, Scythian, shave thy hair, and cease from revelling, and lament the fragrant country lost.
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: How hath our spirit had.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/274/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: How hath our spirit had.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/274/.
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