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-====== Diogenes of Sinope ======
+====== Diogenes of Sinope | Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae Book VI ======
-===== Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae Book VI =====
-<blockquote>Concerning this city **Diogenes** was right in saying that it had far better go to the vultures rather than to the flatterers((Punning on korakas, "crows," and kolakas, "flatterers." "Go to the crows" was the usual expression for "go to the devil.")), for the latter devour good men while they are still alive.
+<blockquote>Concerning this city **Diogenes** was right in saying that it had far better go to the vultures rather than to the flatterers, for the latter devour good men while they are still alive.
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-[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Athenaeus/6D*.html|Source]]</blockquote>
+Source: The Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus published in Vol. II of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928</blockquote>