| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8910 |
| AUTHOR: | Plutarch (A.D. 46?A.D. c. 120) |
| QUOTATION: | Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Symposiacs. Book viii. Question viii. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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