Social Commentaries
Fragment XXXIX: Rash angry words, and spoken out of season
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
Social Commentaries
Rash angry words, and spoken out of season,
When passion has usurp’d the throne of reason,
Have ruin’d many.—Passion is unjust,
And, for an idle transitory gust
Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay
With long repentance at a later day.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XXXIX: Rash angry words, and spoken out of season.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/39/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XXXIX: Rash angry words, and spoken out of season.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/39/.
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