Sunday, February 26, 2023

To Love And Hate With Mouth And Heart

Theognis, The Maxims of Theognis, in: Rev. J. Banks, The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis (Bohn's Classical Library, 1879), p. 222:

Do not caress me in words, and keep your mind and heart elsewhere, if you love me and if there dwells in you a faithful mind. Either love me, cherishing a sincere mind, or disown and hate me, having raised a quarrel openly. But he who, with one tongue, has yet his mind at variance, this man, Cyrnus, is a formidable comrade, better as a foe than when a friend. 

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