Relationships
Gracious Children (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Be happy, children; whose family are you? and what gracious name is given to so pretty things as you?--I am Nicanor, and my father is Aepioretus, and my mother Hegeso, and I am a Macedonian born.--And I am Phila, and this is my brother; and we both stand here fulfilling a vow of our parents.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Scholasticus, Theaetetus. “Gracious Children (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theaetetus/11/.
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Scholasticus, Theaetetus. “Gracious Children (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theaetetus/11/.
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