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Epitaph of Cleita, Nurse of Medeius

by Theocritus

Theocritus

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?




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