Arts & Sciences
Book XIV, 125
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
I am a tomb and I cover the lamented children of Philinna, containing fruit of her vainly-travailing womb such as I describe. Philinna gave me my fifth portion of young men, my third of maidens, and three newly married daughters; the other four descended to Hades from her womb without participating at all in the sunlight and in speech.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Solution: She had 15 children.
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