Your mum

 

 

Or again, when in a dispute Metellus Nepos repeatedly asked Cicero “Who is your father?”, Cicero replied, “In your case, your mother has made this question rather difficult to answer.”

 

Μετέλλου δὲ Νέπωτος ἐν διαφορᾷ τινι πολλάκις λέγοντος “Τίς σοῦ πατήρ εστιν;” ὁ Κικέρων “Σοὶ ταύτην,” ἔφη, “τὴν ἀπόκρισιν ἡ μήτηρ χαλεπωτέραν ἐποίησεν.”

 

—Plutarch, Life of Cicero 26.6