So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language: My son, have pity upon me, that bore thee nine months my womb, and save thee suck years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age.

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Three years. So long physicians judged it best for children to suck, till they could take solid meat. (Vales. lxxxiii.) (Genesis xxi. 8.) (Calmet) — “Chrysippus assigns three years for the nurse.” (Quint. i. 1.)”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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