Theocritus

270 BC / Syracuse, Italy

Epitaph of Cleita, Nurse of Medeius

The babe Medeius to his Thracian nurse
This stone- inscribed To Cleita- reared in the midhighway.
Her modest virtues oft shall men rehearse;
Who doubts it? Is not 'Cleita's worth' a proverb to this day?

translated by C. S. Calverley
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