αὐτὸς δ’ ἐκεῖνον τριπλάσιον κατέσπακας.[[100]]
Athenaeus tells the absurd story of a man who had his nurse chew his food for him all his life: Σάγαριν τὸν Μαριανδυνὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ τρυφῆς σιτεῖσθε μὲν μέχρι γήρως ἐκ τοῦ τῆς τίτθης στόματος, ἵνα μὴ μασώμενος πονήσειεν.[[101]]
The Child in the Nurse’s Arms
In the beautiful idyllic scene of Iliad, vi, 389 ff., where Hector bids farewell to Andromache and his darling son, it is to the familiar arms of the nurse that the child turns when frightened by the glancing helm:
ἂψ δ’ ὁ παὶς πρὸς κόλπον εὐζώνοιο τιθήνης
ἐκλίνθη ἰάχων.[[102]]
In those arms he had been carried,[[103]] and when tired out from his childish play there he had slept on a soft cushion satisfied with every comfort:
αὐτὰρ ὅθ’ ὕπνος ἔλοι, παύσαιτό τε νηπιαχεύων,
εὕδεσκ’ ἐν λέκτροισιν, ἐν ἀγκαλίδεσσι τιθήνης,
εὐνῇ ενι μαλακῇ, θαλέων ἐμπλησάμενος κῆρ.[[104]]