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Maxims of Theognis: I will not go, neither
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
I will not go, neither shall a tyrant be lamented by me, nor go beneath the earth with wailing over his tomb. No, nor would he, if I were dead, either be grieved, or let fall warm tears adown his eyes.
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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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: I will not go, neither.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/357/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: I will not go, neither.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/357/.
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