"The dominie's daughter eloped with a suitor, And the baby was masculine, feminine, neuter."

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Palladas of Alexandria (AG 9.489). Translated by W. S. Marris as "A Question of Gender" for The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 655. The 'dominie' is literally a grammarian.