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Maxims of Theognis: To beguile a noble man
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
To beguile a noble man, look you, is most difficult, as it hath long been decided, Cyrnus, in my judgment. I knew it indeed even before, but much better now; that the mean have no gratitude.
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: To beguile a noble man.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/317/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: To beguile a noble man.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/317/.
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