Note 177 — BOOK XXIX.
Charles Duke Yonge translation
The lines of Theognis are—
"Ἄνδρ’ ὀγαθον πενίη πάντων δάμνησι μάλιστα Καὶ γήρως πολιοῦ, Κύρνε, καὶ ἠπιάλου Ἣν δὴ χρὴ φεύγοντα καὶ ες μεγακήτεα ποντον Ῥίπτειν, καὶ πετρῶν Κύρνε, κατ’ ἠλιβάτων."
Which may be thus translated:—
"Want crushes a brave man far worse than age, O Cyrnus! or than fever's fiery rage; Flee, should thy flight beneath the greedy wave, Or from steep rocks but ope a milder grave."