Menesthea filium reliquit ex Thraessa natum, Coti regis filia. Is cum interrogaretur utrum pluris, patrem matremne, faceret, Matrem, inquit. Id cum omnibus mirum videretur, at ille Merito, inquit, facio; nam pater, quantum in se fuit, Thraecem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem.
He left a son Mnestheus, the offspring of a Thracian woman, the daughter of King Cotus. When Mnestheus was once asked whether he thought more of his father or of his mother, he answered: My mother. When everyone expressed surprise at his reply, he added: I have good reason for that; for my father did everything in his power to make me a Thracian; my mother, on the contrary, made me an Athenian.
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