Theognis of Megara image
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Born in 540 BC / Died in 480 BC / Greece / Greek

Poems by Theognis of Megara

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Fragments - Lines 0667 - 0682

... The deckhands are in control, and the base have the upper hand over the noble ...

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Fragments - Lines 0467 - 0496

... As for the rest of you, take care in what you say as you linger around the wine bowl, ...

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... You the most beautiful of immortals, beside the wheel-round lake, ...

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...  Is growing feeble, for what is noble is being mixed with what is base ...

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... For you, the giver, it is still honorable, and for me as lover it is not shameful ...

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...  With furious energy, taking joy in the plain that brings forth wheat ...

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Fragments - Lines 1267 - 1270

...  And in just this way the boy too loves whoever is at hand ...

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Fragments - Lines 0173 - 0178

... Indeed, to avoid it one should even throw oneself into the sea's ...

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Fragments - Lines 0783 - 0788

...  So true is it, after all, that nothing is dearer than one's homeland ...

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...  Forget, either beginning or coming to an end, ...

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...  But what gives greatest delight is to gain the object of one's desire ...

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Fragments - Lines 1341 - 1350

... I shall endure without concealment the many outrages done in my despite, ...

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... At one moment follow along this way, but at the next change the color of your skin: ...

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Fragments - Lines 1337 - 1340

...  As for you, my boy, you have no attractiveness in my eyes ...

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Fragments - Lines 0219 - 0220

... Do not distress yourself too much at the turbulence of your fellow citizens, ...