Death & Dying
Book VII, 168
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
“Let women after this pray for children,” cried Polyxo, her belly torn by three babes; and in the midwife’s hands she fell dead, while the boys slid from her hollow flanks to the ground, a live birth from a dead mother. So one god took life from her and gave it to them.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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