John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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NUMBER: | 8915 |
AUTHOR: | Plutarch (A.D. 46?A.D. c. 120) |
QUOTATION: | I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up. 1 |
ATTRIBUTION: | Of Isis and Osiris. |
| Note 1. I am the things that are, and those that are to be, and those that have been. No one ever lifted my skirts; the fruit which I bore was the sun.Proclus: On Platos Timæus, p. 30 D. (Inscription in the temple of Neith at Sais, in Egypt.) [back] |
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