"A bad crow lays a bad egg."
— Fathers
January 1, 1970
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E. L. von Leutsch and F. G. Schneidewin, Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum, ii. p. 466. “Ne’er was good son of evil father born,” as runs the saying, quoted by Euripides, Fragment 342 (Dictys, 11).φεῦ φεῦ, παλαιὸς αἶνος ὡς καλῶς ἔχει, οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο χρηστὸς ἐκ κακοῦ πατρός.
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E. L. von Leutsch and F. G. Schneidewin, Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum, ii. p. 466. “Ne’er was good son of evil father born,” as runs the saying, quoted by Euripides, Fragment 342 (Dictys, 11).φεῦ φεῦ, παλαιὸς αἶνος ὡς καλῶς ἔχει, οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο χρηστὸς ἐκ κακοῦ πατρός.