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“When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this."”
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- Source:
- Of Isis and Osiris.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fb261b4734fc0d1918e8638477a20e4567c48da5104091927379fa0d65da9397
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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