Parallel
. None but himself can be his parallel. Wholly without a peer; “Quœris Alcīdœ parem;” “nemo proxinius nec secundus.” There are many similar sentences; for example:—
“Nemo est nisi ipse.”—Seneca: Hercules Furens, 1. 81. (Seneca lived B.C. 58–32.)
“And but herself admits no parallel.”
Massinger: Duke of Millaine, iii. 4. (1662.)
“None but himself himself can parallel.”
Anagram on John Lilburn. (1658.)
“Is there a treachery like this in baseness …
None but itself can be its parallel.”
Theobald: Double Falsehood, iii. 1. (1721.)
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.