“ Generations of students have exhausted their ingenuity in vain efforts to sift the true from the false and to account for the origin and date of the Theognidea as we possess them; the question is fully discussed in the works of Harrison and Hudson-Williams.
The best-attested elegies are those addressed to Cyrnus, the young friend to whom Theognis imparts instruction in the ways of life, bidding him be true to the " good " cause, eschew the company of " evil " men (democrats) , be loyal to his comrades, and wreak cruel vengeance on his foes. ”

“ F. G. Welcker (1826) ; both these are epoch-making books which no serious student can ignore; Th. Bergk (1843, 4th ed. 1882; re-edited by E. Hiller, 1890, and O. Crusius, 1897) ; J. Sitzler (1880) ; E. Harrison (1902) ”