Similar to My Ancestors

Galen, On Avoiding Distress 14 (tr. Sophia Xenophontos): You should thus assume that I too have become the person I am because I am by nature similar to my ancestors, and also that because I received the same education as them, I have the same qualities of soul. I know that my father used to despise human affairs as of small importance, which holds especially for me too now in my old age. νόμιζε…