Living
Maxims of Theognis: Be young, dear heart: soon
Translated by Rev. J. Banks (Bohn, 1856) · From Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis (Bohn, 1856)
Living
Be young, dear heart: soon will there be some other men; and I, having died, shall be dark earth.
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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: Be young, dear heart: soon.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/364/.
Chicago
Megara, Theognis of. “Maxims of Theognis: Be young, dear heart: soon.” Translated by Rev. J. Banks. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/364/.
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