====== Diogenes of Sinope | Aelian, Varia Historia IX.28 ======



<blockquote>**Chap. XXVIII. Of Diogenes.** A Spartan commending this Verse of Hesiod15,
//Not so much as an Oxe can die,
Unleß a Neighbour ill be by ;//
and **Diogenes** hearing him, "But, saith he, the Messenians and their Oxen were destroyed, and you are their Neighbours."
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Source: Thomas Stanley, translator (1665) Claudius Aelianus His Various History</blockquote>