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Maxims of Theognis: My friends forsake me, and
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
My friends forsake me, and will not give me aught, when men appear: but I of-my-own-accord go out at-eve, and come-in again at dawn, when the voice of wakening cocks is heard.
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: My friends forsake me, and.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/282/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: My friends forsake me, and.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/282/.
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