8855. Plutarch. A.D. 46?-A.D. c. 120. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	8855
AUTHOR:	Plutarch (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120)
QUOTATION:	To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker’s son] for his mean birth, “My nobility,” said he, “begins in me, but yours ends in you.” 1
ATTRIBUTION:	Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 2 Iphicrates.
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.

Note 1.
I am my own ancestor.—Junot, Duc D’Abrantes (when asked as to his ancestry). [back]

Note 2.
Rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. [back]