====== Leader of the Army of the Dog - Diogenes of Sinope ======

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==== Authored by Frank Redmond, 2012 ==== {{:2012:220px-waterhouse-diogenes.jpg?220 |Leader of the Army of the Dog - Diogenes of Sinope}} There Xeniades once asked him how he wished to be buried. To which he replied, "On my face." "Why?" inquired the other. "Because," said he, "after a little time down will be converted into up." - Diogenes Laertius 6.32 The word "disabled" (ἀναπήρους), Diogenes held, ought to be applied not to the deaf or blind, but to those who have no wallet (πήρα). - Diogenes Laertius 6.33