pataecus

Updated: May 25, 2025

But Thales took his hand, and, with a smile, said, "These things, Solon, keep me from marriage and rearing children, which are too great for even your constancy to support; however, be not concerned at the report, for it is a fiction." This Hermippus relates, from Pataecus, who boasted that he had Aesop's soul.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans