| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8399 |
| AUTHOR: | Miscellaneous |
| QUOTATION: | Mater ait naté, dic naté, natam Ut moneat naté, plangere filiolam.
The mother to her daughter spake: Daughter, said she, arise! Thy daughter to her daughter take, Whose daughters daughter cries. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A Distich, according to Zwingler, on a Lady of the Dalburg Family who saw her descendants to the sixth generation. |
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