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Book IX, 22
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
The temple servants destined as an acceptable sacrifice to Latona’s daughter a heifer big with young; but happy birth-pangs anticipated her approaching death, and she was sent to the herd to bear her child in freedom. For the goddess who presides over child-bed deemed it not right to slay creatures in labour, having learnt to pity them.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “Book IX, 22.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/32/.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “Book IX, 22.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/32/.
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