omises

Updated: May 23, 2025

Nor truly was there anything, however inconsiderable, given him, which he did not deign kindly to accept of; insomuch that when one Omises had presented him with a very large pomegranate, "By Mithras," said he, "this man, were he entrusted with it, would turn a small city into a great one."

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans