• Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

    Euripides: Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
    Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC