When Metellus kept asking him who his father was, Cicero said, ‘The answer to that same question your mother has made the more difficult for you !’ For Metellus's mother was far from virtuous, and Metellus himself was light-minded, vacillating, and carried away by his impulses. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Cicero, chap. xxvi. (874 B).
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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