Report, if you have a problem with this page“ It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters. ”
Marguerite Yourcenar
From : Memoirs of Hadrian