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“The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Phrixus. Frag. 970.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 747331c86b493af096b9b11626ea8661e97361275ca12786a5b997423b41b2ab
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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