Death & Dying
Epigram LI (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
Phrygian Aeschra, his good nurse, so long as she lived, Miccus cared for in her old age with all good things, and when she died, he set up her statue for future generations to see, so that the old woman has received thanks for her nursing breasts.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/205/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram LI (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/205/.
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