Wowee.
Metrodora is awesome! At first glance I thought it was going to mean gift of the city. But mother's gift is too good to be true.
I know it's intended to convey the best of "mother's gift," but I keep thinking of some annoying woman guilting her children to death. "I was in labor for 33 hours bringing you into the world. Some mother's gift I get. You never call, you never write. . . . " That, or some prissy woman with a spoiled brat; her "gift" to the rest of us.
By the way,
Iris Leocadia is top notch. :-D