Death & Dying
On a Son, by His Mother (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
What profits it to labour in childbirth? what to bear children? let not her bear who must see her child's death: for to stripling Bianor his mother reared the tomb; but it was fitting that the mother should obtain this service of the son.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Miletus, Diotimus of. “On a Son, by His Mother (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/diotimus-miletus/9/.
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Miletus, Diotimus of. “On a Son, by His Mother (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/diotimus-miletus/9/.
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