Themistocles

Plutarch

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. II. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.

In the case of Themistocles,[*](It is probable that one or more introductory paragraphs of this biography have been lost.) his family was too obscure to further his reputation. His father was Neocles,—no very conspicuous man at Athens,—a Phrearrhian by deme, of the tribe Leontis; and on his mother’s side he was an alien, as her epitaph testifies:—

  1. Abrotonon was I, and a woman of Thrace, yet I brought forth
  2. That great light of the Greeks,—know! ’twas Themistocles.
[*](Athenaeus xiii. p. 576.)