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diogenes_of_sinope:aelian_varia_historia_iii.29 [2012/07/20 18:54] – external edit 127.0.0.1diogenes_of_sinope:aelian_varia_historia_iii.29 [2014/01/14 23:19] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 <blockquote>**Chap. XXIX. Of the Poverty and Pride of Diogenes. Diogenes the Sinopean** used to say of himself, that he fulfilled and suffered the imprecations mentioned in the Tragedy, being a Vagabond, destitute of a house, deprived of his country, a Beggar, ill clothed, having his livelihood onely from day to day : And yet he was more pleased with this condition, then Alexander with the command of the whole World, when having conquered the Indians he returned to Babylon. <blockquote>**Chap. XXIX. Of the Poverty and Pride of Diogenes. Diogenes the Sinopean** used to say of himself, that he fulfilled and suffered the imprecations mentioned in the Tragedy, being a Vagabond, destitute of a house, deprived of his country, a Beggar, ill clothed, having his livelihood onely from day to day : And yet he was more pleased with this condition, then Alexander with the command of the whole World, when having conquered the Indians he returned to Babylon.
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-[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/varhist3.xhtml|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +Source: Thomas Stanley, translator (1665) Claudius Aelianus His Various History</blockquote>
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