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Maxims of Theognis: While I was drinking alone
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
While I was drinking alone of the dark-water spring, methought the water was of a sweet and limpid nature; but now hath it been polluted; water is mixt with water: I will drink then of other fountain or river.
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: While I was drinking alone.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/300/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: While I was drinking alone.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/300/.
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