Social Commentaries
Fragment LXXXIV: No mean or coward heart will I commend
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
Social Commentaries
No mean or coward heart will I commend
In an old comrade or a party friend :
Nor with ungenerous, hasty zeal decry
A noble-minded gallant enemy.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LXXXIV: No mean or coward heart will I commend.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/87/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LXXXIV: No mean or coward heart will I commend.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/87/.
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