Stesichorus[192] and Pindar[193] assert that it was the nurse who saved Orestes from his mother after his father’s murder. Aeschylus calls her Cilissa, and points her out to us as full of love and devotedness for the child.[194] Such is the devotion of Medea’s nurse for her mistress that the old παιδαγωγός is surprised to see her outside the place without Medea.[195] The nurse in the Trachiniae shows real grief for the fate of her mistress,[196] while Phaedra’s nurse attributes her unwise action to excess of love,[197] and Hypsipyle’s nursling is as dear to her as her own child.[198] Fidelity is the attribute which characterizes Aristophanes’ πιστὴ τροφός.[199] A good instance of the nurse’s care for the child is given in Menander, where an old nurse, seeing a child crying and neglected, goes up to it and says: “My darling, and my precious, and where is Mama?” She then kisses it and walks about with it until it stops crying, when she says to herself, “Ah me, it seems but yesterday I was nursing that dear child, Moschio, and now that a child is born to him!” Then to a young girl who comes running in from outside: “Bathe the child, can’t you? What is this? Is it because it is his father’s wedding day that you have no care of the little one?”[200] Examples of tender attachment are also met with in real life. Demosthenes furnishes a typical illustration in Oration, xlvii. “I explained to the interpreters the attachment of the woman to our family, the cause of my having her in my house, and that she had lost her life in the defense of my property. She had no kind of family connection with me, except that she had been my nurse.”