• invariably refer to a "Laertius Diogenes", and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater and the Suda. The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer,...
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    Diogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛːs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός...
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    (Penguin, 2012) Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists, ed. R. Hard (Oxford, 2012) Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions...
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    Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 12; Plutarch, Non posse suav. vivi sec. Ep. p. 1094 Porphyry, in Ptol. Harm. p. 213; Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 12. Diogenes Laërtius...
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    as evidence of Diogenes' disregard for authority, wealth, and decorum. Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius report that Alexander and Diogenes died on the same...
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    Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 181. cf. Green 1993, p. 639 Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 179. cf. Dorandi 1999, p. 40 Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 184 Diogenes Laërtius, vii...
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    pages 2-4 Navia, Diogenes the Cynic, page 100 Navia, Diogenes the Cynic, pages 34, 112-3 Xenophon, Symposium, iv. 34–44. Laërtius 1925, § 15. Brancacci...
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    multitude." Diogenes Laërtius relates several stories of an expensive, gold tripod or bowl that is to go to the most wise. In one version (that Laërtius credits...
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    Machine. Diogenes Laertius, Life of Plato, IV Notopoulos 1939, p. 135 Seneca, Epistulae, VI 58:29–30; translation by Robert Mott Gummere Laërtius 1925, § 4...
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    embraced a wide range of subjects, and the list of them given by Diogenes Laërtius shows that he was a man of the most extensive acquirements. These...
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