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A YOUNG MOTHER by DIOSCORIDES

First Line: I WAS POLYXENE IN LIFE
Last Line: I WAS AGED EIGHTEEN AND DIED.
Subject(s): DEATH - MOTHERS; DEAD, THE;
I WAS Polyxene in life,
Archelaus' wedded wife,
Child whom Theodectes had
And Demarete the sad:
And I, though death removed my son
Before his twentieth day was run,
Am mother, birth pangs me entitle;
But my life was all too little,
Newly mother and newly bride
I was aged eighteen and died.



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