Chap. 42 (41.) — Rare Instances of Good Fortune Continuing in the Same Family
During the whole course of ages, we find only one woman, and that, Lampido, the Lacedæmonian, who was the daughter of a king, the wife of a king, and the mother of a king.1194 Berenice was the only woman who was daughter, sister, and mother of conquerors in the Olympian games.1195 The family of the Curios1196 has been the only one to produce three orators in succession; that of the Fabii alone has given three chiefs of the senate in succession, Fabius Ambustus, his son Fabius Rullianus, and his grandson Quintus Fabius Gurges.1197