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“From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Theseus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8b07a90bf4d04332479ffe5eb4708aea916b0d29603acaf2441befa50887067d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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