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In reply to Harmodius, descendant of the Harmodius of early days, who twitted him about his lowly birth, he said, ‘My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.’ 1
1 Cf. De nobilitate, 21, in Moralia, vol. vii. p. 272 of Bernardakis's edition.
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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