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(Quote) That's the story--that his father was an itinerant teacher and his mother sold charms, both occupations suggesting low birth. Given that; They were unwanted colonizers in disputed territory andMetrodorus wrote a tract "On Noble Birth" defending Epicurus against the derision of his detractors,The story is probably true enough so far as it goes. As for the VS, I suspect that there is a touch of irony in it. When Alexander the Great went to an oracle at the Oasis of Siwa, the prophets told …