Διογένης
Diogenes
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Translation
Son of a banker [named] Hikesios, from Sinope. Diogenes, after running away from his homeland on account of having counterfeited some coinage,1 arrived in Athens. After meeting Antisthenes the Cynic,2 he fell in love with that lifestyle and embraced the Cynic philosophy; he became contemptuous of his own great wealth. When he was old, he was taken by a pirate named Skirtalos3 and after he had been sold in Corinth to a certain Xeniades, he stayed for a long time with his buyer, not choosing to be ransomed by the Athenians nor by his family and friends.
In the 113th Olympiad, he died after being bitten in the leg by a dog and refusing treatment, on the same day as Alexander of Macedon died in Babylon.4
In the 113th Olympiad, he died after being bitten in the leg by a dog and refusing treatment, on the same day as Alexander of Macedon died in Babylon.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διογένης, Ἱκεσίου υἱὸς τραπεζίτου, Σινωπεύς. ὃς φυγὼν τὴν πατρίδα διὰ τὸ παρακόψαι νόμισμα ἦλθεν εἰς Ἀθήνας καὶ Ἀντισθένει παραβαλὼν τῷ Κυνικῷ ἠράσθη τοῦ ἐκείνου βίου καὶ τὴν Κυνικὴν φιλοσοφίαν ἠσπάσατο, πολλῆς οὔσης αὐτῷ ὑπεριδὼν οὐσίας. γηραιὸς δὲ ὢν ὑπὸ πειρατοῦ Σκιρτάλου ἐλήφθη καὶ πραθεὶς ἐν Κορίνθῳ Ξενιάδῃ τινὶ παρὰ τῷ πριαμένῳ διέμεινεν, οὐχ ἑλόμενος λυθῆναι ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων ἢ τῶν οἰκείων καὶ φίλων. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ριγʹ Ὀλυμπιάδος κατέστρεψε τὸν βίον δηχθεὶς ὑπὸ κυνὸς τὸ σκέλος καὶ θεραπείας ὑπεριδών, κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἡμέραν ὅτε καὶ ὁ Μακεδὼν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Βαβυλῶνι ἀπέθανεν.
Betacode
*dioge/nhs, *(ikesi/ou ui(o\s trapezi/tou, *sinwpeu/s. o(\s fugw\n th\n patri/da dia\ to\ parako/yai no/misma h)=lqen ei)s *)aqh/nas kai\ *)antisqe/nei parabalw\n tw=| *kunikw=| h)ra/sqh tou= e)kei/nou bi/ou kai\ th\n *kunikh\n filosofi/an h)spa/sato, pollh=s ou)/shs au)tw=| u(peridw\n ou)si/as. ghraio\s de\ w)\n u(po\ peiratou= *skirta/lou e)lh/fqh kai\ praqei\s e)n *kori/nqw| *cenia/dh| tini\ para\ tw=| priame/nw| die/meinen, ou)x e(lo/menos luqh=nai u(po\ *)aqhnai/wn h)\ tw=n oi)kei/wn kai\ fi/lwn. e)pi\ de\ th=s rig# *)olumpia/dos kate/streye to\n bi/on dhxqei\s u(po\ kuno\s to\ ske/los kai\ qerapei/as u(peridw/n, kata\ th\n au)th\n h(me/ran o(/te kai\ o( *makedw\n *)ale/candros e)n *babulw=ni a)pe/qanen.
Notes (4)
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Diogenes at web address 1; Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Cynicism at web address 2. See also delta 1141, delta 1144. For the present material cf. Diogenes Laertius 6.20-21 & 79.↩
- 1In D.L. rival authorities are cited for two versions of this: the counterfeiter was either Hikesios or Diogenes himself. ↩
- 2See alpha 2723. ↩
- 3cf. sigma 629. ↩
- 4Undue compression here: D.L. says that he was an old man in the 113th Olympiad (328-325), and has already said that he died on the same day as Alexander the Great (in sc. 323).
External resources
- Web address 1 utm.edu
- Web address 2 newadvent.org
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