Translations
But if, by desiring to be useful to that, you lose these, of what use can you be to your country when you are become faithless and void of shame.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
But if, by desiring to be useful to that, you lose these, how can you serve your country, when you have become faithless and shameless?Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
But if when you wish to be useful to the state, you shall lose these qualities, what profit could you be to it, if you were made shameless and faithless?George Long (1890)
But if you are going to lose these qualities in trying to benefit your city, what benefit, I ask, would you have done her when you attain to the perfection of being lost to shame and honour?Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)