Nature
Epigram 20 (Edmonds)
Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912) · From The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb, 1912)
Nature
This memorial the little Medeius hath builded by the wayside to his Thracian nurse, and written her name upon it, “Cleita.”’ She hath her reward for the child’s good upbringing, and what is it? to be called “a good servant’ evermore.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 20 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/126/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram 20 (Edmonds).” Translated by J. M. Edmonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/126/.
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