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Maxims of Theognis: To you now, as to
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
To you now, as to a dear child, I myself will give sound advice; and do you ponder these things in your heart and mind. Never do any evil hastily, but deliberate in the deep of your heart, and with your better mind. For of them that contend, ’tis the heart and the mind that contend; but counsel leads to a good and sound mind.
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: To you now, as to.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/319/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: To you now, as to.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/319/.
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