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XVIII.

Epitaph of Cleita, Nurse of Medeius.

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?