Death & Dying
Book VII, 743
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
I, Hermocrateia, bore twenty-nine children and have not seen the death of one, either boy or girl. For far from Apollo having shot down my sons and Artemis my daughters for me to lament, Artemis came to relieve me in childbed and Phoebus brought my sons to man’s estate: unhurt by sickness. See how I justly surpass Niobe both in my children and in restraint of speech,
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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