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Maxims of Theognis: Senseless and childish are the
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Senseless and childish are the men, who mourn for the dead, and not the flower of manhood, when it perishes.
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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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Senseless and childish are the.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/323/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Senseless and childish are the.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/323/.
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