Living
Book XI, 18
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Living
Philaenis without conceiving bore a girl child to Heliodorus spontaneously, and when he was vexed at its being a girl she let six days pass and said she had borne a boy. So it is all over with Bubastis ; for if every woman is brought to bed like Philaenis, ' who will pay any attention to the goddess?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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