παισὶν ἐπὶ προτέροις ἤδη τρίτον ἐν πυρὶ μήτηρ
θεῖσα, καὶ ἀπλήστῳ δαίμονι μεμφομένη,

τέτρατον ἄλγος ἔτικτε, καὶ οὐκ ἀνέμεινεν ἀδήλους
ἐλπίδας, ἐν δὲ πυρὶ ζωὸν ἔθηκε βρέφος,

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— Paton edition

A mother who had laid on the pyre her third
child after losing the others too, reviling insatiate
Death, on giving birth to a fourth sorrow would not
wait, nourishing uncertain hope, but threw the child
alive in the fire. " I will nob rear it," she said.
" What profits it ? My paps, ye toil for Hades. I
shall gain mourning with less trouble."

— Paton edition

A mother who had laid on the pyre her third
child after losing the others too, reviling insatiate
Death, on giving birth to a fourth sorrow would not
wait, nourishing uncertain hope, but threw the child
alive in the fire. " I will nob rear it," she said.
" What profits it ? My paps, ye toil for Hades. I
shall gain mourning with less trouble."

— Paton edition

παισὶν ἐπὶ προτέροις ἤδη τρίτον ἐν πυρὶ μήτηρ
θεῖσα, καὶ ἀπλήστῳ δαίμονι μεμφομένη,

τέτρατον ἄλγος ἔτικτε, καὶ οὐκ ἀνέμεινεν ἀδήλους
ἐλπίδας, ἐν δὲ πυρὶ ζωὸν ἔθηκε βρέφος,

οὐ θρέψω λέξασα:
τί γὰρ πλέον; Ἄϊδι μαστοὶ

κάμνετε: κερδήσω πένθος ἀμοχθότερον.

— Paton edition