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 <blockquote>Monimus of Syracuse was a pupil of Diogenes; and, according to Sosicrates, he was in the service of a certain Corinthian banker, to whom Xeniades, the purchaser of Diogenes, made frequent visits, and by the account which he gave of his goodness in word and deed, excited in Monimus a passionate admiration of Diogenes. For he forthwith pretended to be mad and proceeded to fling away the small change and all the money on the banker's table, until at length his master dismissed him; and he then straightway devoted himself to Diogenes. He often followed **Crates the Cynic** as well, and embraced the like pursuits; whereupon his master, seeing him do this, was all the more persuaded that he was mad. <blockquote>Monimus of Syracuse was a pupil of Diogenes; and, according to Sosicrates, he was in the service of a certain Corinthian banker, to whom Xeniades, the purchaser of Diogenes, made frequent visits, and by the account which he gave of his goodness in word and deed, excited in Monimus a passionate admiration of Diogenes. For he forthwith pretended to be mad and proceeded to fling away the small change and all the money on the banker's table, until at length his master dismissed him; and he then straightway devoted himself to Diogenes. He often followed **Crates the Cynic** as well, and embraced the like pursuits; whereupon his master, seeing him do this, was all the more persuaded that he was mad.
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 +Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (1925) by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks\\
 [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/|Source]]</blockquote> [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/|Source]]</blockquote>
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