Monday, December 16, 2024

 

The Best Wine

Diogenes Laertius 6.2.54 (on Diogenes the Cynic; tr. R.D. Hicks):
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

ἐρωτηθεὶς ποῖον οἶνον ἡδέως πίνει, ἔφη, "τὸν ἀλλότριον."
This is fragment 193 of Diogenes the Cynic in Gabriele Giannantoni, ed., Socraticorum Reliquiae, Vol. II (Naples: Bibliopolis, 1983), p. 496.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 10:17 AM


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