You, boy, who owe everything to a name.
O puer, qui omnia nomini debes.
—Mark Antony (83 BC to 30 BC) to Octavian, later Augustus Caesar (63 BC-14 AD). Augustus was the nephew of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony is implying that without Caesar’s name he would have been a nobody. From the Philippics (13.11. 24-25) of Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)
i love this quote.