Living
Book IX, 69
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
A stepmother’s spite is ever mordant, and not gentle even in love. I know what befel chaste Hippolytus.
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