Social Commentaries
Fragment XLVI: No more with empty phrase and speeches fine
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
Social Commentaries
No more with empty phrase and speeches fine
Seek to delude mé, let your heart be mine:
Your friendship or your enmity declare
In a decided form, open and fair:
An enemy disguis’d, a friend in show,
—I like him better, Kurnus, as a foe.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XLVI: No more with empty phrase and speeches fine.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/46/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment XLVI: No more with empty phrase and speeches fine.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/46/.
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