11/25/2023 0 Comments Diogenes of sinope cause of death![]() Let me see what you have got in that wallet. Yes, and get a thrashing from Aeacus for my pains! I like that. Well, you had better take me back again to life. Oh, come now: gratis! I took an oar, and I baled and I didn't cry, which is more than can be said for any of the others. So you are to have the distinction of being the only passenger that ever crossed gratis? What would you have? I ought not to have died, I suppose? If I have not got the money, I can't pay you, can I? You can haul up your ship and wait, for all I care. I dare say! A fine time I shall have of it, if I am to pay for the shades. Let Hermes pay for me: he put me on board. So you are to come all that way for nothing? "Eggs were often used as purificatory offerings and set out in front of the house purified." Id.īawl away, Charon, if it gives you any pleasure.Īnd who is so poor that he has not got a penny?Īnd I'll crack your skull with this stick. In the Greek, "a Hecate's repast lying at a street corner." "Rich men used to make offerings to Hecate on the 30th of every month as Goddess of roads at street corners and these offerings were at once pounced upon by the poor, or, as here, the Cynics." Jacobitz.Ģ. ![]() Oh, well, let them off, if you care about it but tell all the others what I said.ġ. No, no, Diogenes leave Sparta alone that is going too far your other commissions I will execute. As for your Spartans, you will not mind scolding them, from me, upon their present degeneracy? Tell them to dry their tears and cease their cries explain to them that here one man is as good as another, and they will find those who were rich on earth no better than themselves. There are a great many of them, very sorry for themselves and resentful of their helplessness. Yes, my Spartan, and here is for the poor. That is to the handsome and strong yes, I can manage that. Inform them that auburn locks, eyes bright or black, rosy cheeks, are as little in fashion here as tense muscles or mighty shoulders man and man are as like as two peas, tell them, when it comes to bare skull and no beauty. Then tell them from me to go to the devil.Īnd then, my most obliging of Polluxes, there is this for the rich:-O vain fools, why hoard gold? why all these pains over interest sums and the adding of hundred to hundred, when you must shortly come to us with nothing beyond the dead-penny?Īh, and a word to the handsome and strong Megillus of Corinth, and Damoxenus the wrestler will do. Oh, but if I say anything against their wisdom, they will call me an ignorant blockhead. May I give you another message to those same philosophers?Ĭharge them generally to give up playing the fool, quarrelling over metaphysics, tricking each other with horn and crocodile puzzles and teaching people to waste wit on such absurdities. Old, bald, with a cloak that allows him plenty of light and ventilation, and is patched all colours of the rainbow always laughing, and usually gibing at pretentious philosophers. Tell him this, and mention that he had better stuff his wallet with plenty of lupines, and any un-considered trifles he can snap up in the way of pauper doles 1 or lustral eggs. ![]() Pollux, I have a commission for you next time you go up-and I think it is your turn for earth to-morrow-if you come across Menippus the Cynic-you will find him about the Craneum at Corinth, or in the Lyceum, laughing at the philosophers' disputes-well, give him this message:-Menippus, Diogenes advises you, if mortal subjects for laughter begin to pall, to come down below, and find much richer material where you are now, there is always a dash of uncertainty in it the question will always intrude-who can be quite sure about the hereafter? Here, you can have your laugh out in security, like me it is the best of sport to see millionaires, governors, despots, now mean and insignificant you can only tell them by their lamentations, and the spiritless despondency which is the legacy of better days. A Necromantic Experiment DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD 1 - 20, TRANSLATED BY H.
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