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Fragment LXIV: Schemes unadvisable and out of reason

by Theognis of Megara fl. 6th century BC

Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)

Social Commentaries

Schemes unadvisable and out of reason
Are best adjourn’d—wait for a proper season!
Time and a, fair conjuncture govern all.
Hasty ambition hurries to a fall;
A fall predestin’d and ordain’d by heaven:
By a judicial blindness madly driven,
Mistaking and confounding good and evil,
Men lose their senses, as they leave their level.

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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LXIV: Schemes unadvisable and out of reason.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/65/.

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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LXIV: Schemes unadvisable and out of reason.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/65/.

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