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The Broken Home (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I wept the doom of my Theionoë, but borne up by hopes of her child I wailed in lighter grief; and now a jealous fate has bereft me of the child also; alas, babe, I am cozened even of thee, all that was left me. Persephone, hear thou this at a father's lamentation; lay the babe on the bosom of its mother who is gone.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Bithynia, Bianor of. “The Broken Home (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bianor/20/.
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Bithynia, Bianor of. “The Broken Home (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bianor/20/.
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