A falsehood, in its contrary as great
As my trust was.
Shakespeare, The Tempest, act i. sc. 2 (1609).
Father Suckled by His own Daughter. Euphrasia, called “The Grecian Daughter,” thus preserved the life of her father Evander in prison. (See Euphrasia.)
Xantippê thus preserved the life of her father Cimonos in prison.
A Father’s Head Nursed by a Daughter after Death. Margaret Roper “clasped in her last trance her murdered father’s head.” (See Daughter.)
Father of His Country.
Cicero, who broke up the Catiline conspiracy (B.C. 106-43).
⁂ The Romans offered the same title to Marĭus after his annihilation of the Teutŏnês and Cimbri, but he would not accept it.
Julius Cæsar, after he had quelled the Spanish insurrection (B.C. 100-44). Augustus, P (B.C. 63-31 to A.D. 14).