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Quotation from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
“For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows, than the second man in Rome”
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Caesar, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864)
Caesar’s answer to his friends’ jest as they passed a poor village in the Alps.
Citation: "For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows, than the second man in Rome" — Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Caesar, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864). (id plutarch-lives-q6)
