Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

Lochagus, the father of Polyaenides and Seiron, when word was brought to him that one of his sons was dead, said, I have known this long while that he was fated to die.