When Hermodotus in his poems wrote of him as ‘The Offspring of the Sun,’ he said, ‘The slave who attends to my chamber-pot is not conscious of that!’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 360 C.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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