Monday, November 25, 2024

 

What Is Wretched in Life?

Diogenes Laertius 6.2.51 (on Diogenes the Cynic; tr. R.D. Hicks):
To the question what is wretched in life he replied, "An old man destitute."

ἐρωτηθεὶς τί ἄθλιον ἐν βίῳ, ἔφη, "γέρων ἄπορος."
This is fragment 84 of Diogenes the Cynic in Gabriele Giannantoni, ed., Socraticorum Reliquiae, Vol. II (Naples: Bibliopolis, 1983), p. 449.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:13 PM


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