Palladas

Palladas (fl. 4th century AD) was a Greek poet of the Roman period.

Quotes

 * Anth. Pal. ix. 489.
 * Γραμματικοῦ θυγάτηρ ἔτεκεν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα παιδίον ἀρσενικόν, θηλυκόν, οὐδέτερον.
 * A grammarian’s daughter, having known a man, gave birth to a child which was masculine, feminine, and neuter.
 * W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology, iii, pp. 272-3.
 * THE dominie’s daughter eloped with a suitor, And the baby was masculine, feminine, neuter.
 * ["A Question of Gender"] W. S. Marris, The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 655.


 * Anth. Pal. x. 85.
 * Πάντες τῷ θανάτῳ τηρούμεθα, καὶ τρεφόμεσθα ὡς ἀγέλη χοίρων σφαζομένων ἀλόγως.
 * We are all kept and fed for death, like a herd of swine to be slain without reason.
 * W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology, iv, pp. 46-7.
 * DEATH’S herd are we, and all the world a sty. For Death we’re primed and butchered,—god knows why!
 * T. F. Higham, The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. ?