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Resignation: Joannes Barbucallus (Sixth Century A.D.)

By The Greek Anthology

GAZING upon my husband as my last thread was spun, I praised the gods of death, and I praised the gods of marriage,—those, that I left my husband alive, and these, that he was even such an one; but may he remain, a father for our children.

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