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Maxims of Theognis: Drink when men drink: but
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Drink when men drink: but when thou shalt have been at-all disgusted in spirit, let no man know that thou art troubled. One while, look you, you will grieve at suffering, and at another, doing, you are able to rejoice, and at different times you are a different man.
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: Drink when men drink: but.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/306/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Drink when men drink: but.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/306/.
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