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diogenes_of_sinope:athenaeus_book_ii.49.a-b [2012/07/20 18:55] – external edit 127.0.0.1diogenes_of_sinope:athenaeus_book_ii.49.a-b [2014/01/14 23:19] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 <blockquote>When a Cynic called the four-legged table a tripod, Ulpian, one of the guests at the savant's dinner, took exception and said: "To‑day 'I am going to have business on my hands after a period of idleness.' For where does he get his word 'tripod'? . . . unless, of course, he counts **Diogenes**' staff along with his legs and calls him a tripod, Bwhen everybody else call what are here set before us four-legged tables."  <blockquote>When a Cynic called the four-legged table a tripod, Ulpian, one of the guests at the savant's dinner, took exception and said: "To‑day 'I am going to have business on my hands after a period of idleness.' For where does he get his word 'tripod'? . . . unless, of course, he counts **Diogenes**' staff along with his legs and calls him a tripod, Bwhen everybody else call what are here set before us four-legged tables." 
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-[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Athenaeus/2B*.html|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +SourceThe Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus published in VolII of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928</blockquote>
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