Nature
Epigram 16 (Edmonds)
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Nature
This little maid was taken untimely, seven years old and her life before her, and ’twas for grief, the poor child, that her brother of twenty months should have tasted, pretty babe, the unkindness of Death; O Peristeré, the pity of it! how near to man and ready hath God set what is woefullest!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Theocritus. “Epigram 16 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/122/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 16 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/122/.
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