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“Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Themistocles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fab195f946a5ffaa83cde26345e223eab0878389158eda80f52a24b0623f37a2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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