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:And then repose, the earth piled into a mound round himself.}}
The lines were much quoted in antiquity, as for example by [[Stobaeus]] and [[Sextus Empiricus]], and it was imitated by later poets, such as [[Sophocles]] and [[Bacchylides]].<ref group ="nb">Stobaeus 4.52, Sextus Empiricus ''Pyrrh. hypot.'' 3.231, Sophocles ''O.C'' 1225 and Bacchylides 5.160–2{{emdash}}cited by David Campbell, ''Greek Lyric Poetry'' page 366</ref> Theognis himself might be imitating others: each of the longer hexameter lines is loosely paraphrased in the shorter pentameter lines, as if he borrowed the longer lines from some unknown source(s) and added the shorter lines to create an elegiac version.<ref>Douglas E. Gerber, ''Greek Elegiac Poetry'', Loeb Classical Library (1999), note 1 page 235</ref> Moreover, the last line could be imitating an image from Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'' (5.482), where Odysseus covers himself with leaves though some scholars think the key word {{lang|grc|ἐπαμησάμενον}} might be corrupted.<ref>Thomas Hudson-Williams, ''The elegies of Theognis and other elegies included in the Theognidean sylloge'' (1910), note 428 pages 205–6</ref><ref>see also J. M. Edmonds (ed.), ''Elegiac Poems of Theognis'', ''Elegy and Iambus'' Vol.1, note 103, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0479%3Avolume%3D1%3Atext%3D11%3Asection%3D2#note103 Persus Digital Library]</ref><ref group ="nb">
{{lang|grc|... δοιοὺς δ' ἄρ' ὑπήλυθε θάμνους}} <br>
{{lang|grc|ἐξ ὁμόθεν πεφυῶτας· ὁ μὲν φυλίης, ὁ δ' ἐλαίης.}}<br>
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However a later scholar has observed that the catchword principle can be made to work for just about any anthology as a matter of coincidence due to thematic association.<ref>Thomas Hudson-Williams, ''The Elegies of Theognis'', G. Bell and Sons Ltd (1910), pages 13–15</ref>
Nietzsche valued Theognis as an archetype of the embattled aristocrat, describing him as "...a finely formed nobleman who has fallen on bad times", and "a distorted [[Janus]]-head" at the crossroads of social change.<ref>quoted in a biography on Nietzsche by Curt Paul Janz and cited in a note by Maudemarie Clark and Alan Swensen in their edition, ''On the Genealogy of Morality: a polemic'', Hackett Publishing Company (1998), page 133</ref><ref group ="nb">"Theognis appears as a finely formed nobleman who has fallen on bad times...full of fatal hatred toward the upward striving masses, tossed about by a sad fate that wore him down and made him milder in many respects. He is a characteristic image of that old, ingenious somewhat spoiled and no longer firmly rooted blood nobility, placed at the boundary of an old and a new era, a distorted [[Janus]]-head, since what is past seems so beautiful and enviable, that which is coming{{emdash}}something that basically has an equal entitlement{{emdash}}seems disgusting and repulsive; a typical head for all those noble figures who represent the aristocracy prior to a popular revolution and who struggle for the existence of the class of nobles as for their individual existence."{{emdash}}from a biography of Nietzsche by Curt Paul Zanz, quoted and translated by Maudemarie Clark and Alan Swensen in their edition, ''On the Genealogy of Morality: a polemic'', Hackett Publishing Company (1998), page 133</ref> Not all the verses in the collection however fitted Nietzsche's notion of Theognis, the man, and he rejected ''Musa Paedica'' or "Book 2" as the interpolation of a malicious editor out to discredit him.<ref>Thomas Hudson-Williams, ''The Elegies of Theognis'', G. Bell and Sons Ltd (1910), pages 60–61</ref> In one of his seminal works, ''[[On the Genealogy of
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