fountain that Simus sets by the side of Gillus his dead child.


XXX
ON THE CHILDREN OF NICANDER AND LYSIDICE
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

This is the single tomb of Nicander's children; the light of a single
morning ended the sacred offspring of Lysidice.


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?


XXXII
ON A CHILD OF FIVE
LUCIAN

Me Callimachus, a five-years-old child whose spirit knew not grief,
pitiless Death snatched away; but weep thou not for me; for little was
my share in life, and little in life's ills.