Social Commentaries
Fragment LXXXI: An exile has no friends! no partisan
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
Social Commentaries
An exile has no friends! no partisan
Ts firm or faithful to the banish’d man;
A disappointment and a punishment,
Harder to bear, and worse than banishment!
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LXXXI: An exile has no friends! no partisan.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/84/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LXXXI: An exile has no friends! no partisan.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/84/.
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