<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.”
Source: Thomas Stanley, translator (1665) Claudius Aelianus His Various History</blockquote>