Epigram 9.659

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On the Great Praetorium when newly decorated

Codex Palatinus 23, p.468

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ὡς ἀγαθὸν καὶ παῖς ἐπὶ γήραϊ: φαιδροτέρους γάρ
Δομνῖνος θαλάμους μητρὸς ἔτευξε Δίκης.
λάμπω ἐγὼ διὰ παιδός, ὁ παῖς δι᾽ ἐμεῖο φαείνει:
κύδεα δ᾽ ἀλλήλοις ἀντιχαριζόμεθα,

— Paton edition

What a blessing is a child in our old age ! Dom-
ninus has made the courts of me, mother Justice,
brighter. I shine through my child, and my child
through me, each bestowing our glory on the other.

— Paton edition

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