Our greatest anguish of all is when one is separated from each other, not only citizens from citizens, but also wives from husbands, daughters from mothers, and every tie of kinship severed. This has befallen many of our fellow-citizens because of poverty. Isocrates. Plataicus. Speech 14. Section 49.
Image: Palmyran Limestone Funerary Plaque of a Woman with her Mother first half of the 2nd century CE courtesy of Phoenix Ancient Art and Pinterest.
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