Greek Anthology Book I Chapter III Part III

Introduction

CHAPTER III
Epitaphs

Chapter III Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII

CHAPTER III

XXXI
ON A BABY
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Me a baby that was just tasting life heaven snatched away, I know not whether for good or for evil; insatiable Death, why hast thou snatched me cruelly in infancy? why hurriest thou? Are we not all thine in the end?

• On a Baby
• On a Child of Five, Lucian
• On a Child of Seven
• On a Boy of Twelve, Callimachus
• On Cleoetes
• On a Beautiful Boy
• On a Boy of Nineteen
• On a Son, by His Mother, Diotimus
• On a Girl, Callimachus
• On a Betrothed Girl, Erinna