Living
Maxims of Theognis: Remind me not of ills
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Remind me not of ills: I have suffered, look you, such treatment as Ulysses; who went to the vast mansion of Hades, and came up again from it; Ulysses, who, prudent as in truth he was, also slew with pitiless steel the suitors of Penelope, his wedded spouse: she who had long awaited him, while she remained abiding beside his dear son, until he set foot in the land, and trod the terror-causing inmost corners.
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: Remind me not of ills.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/336/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Remind me not of ills.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/336/.
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