“Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother.”

— Hesiod , book Works and Days

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 825.

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Ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ.

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