Note 94 — Chapter III · * OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES.
Reading edition
Diog. L. vi. 2, 21-49; Plutarch Quæst. Sympos. ii. 1, 7; Epiktetus, iii. 22, 67, iv. 1, 114; Dion Chrysostom. Orat. viii.-ix.-x.
Plutarch quotes two lines from Diogenes respecting Antisthenes:—
Ὅς με ῥάκη τ’ ἤμπισχε κὰξηνάγκασε Πτωχὸν γενέσθαι καὶ δόμων ἀνάστατον —
οὐ γὰρ ἂν ὁμοίως πιθανὸς ἦν λέγων — Ὅς με σοφὸν καὶ αὐτάρκη καὶ μακάριον ἐποίησε.
The interpretation given of the passage by Plutarch is curious, but quite in the probable meaning of the author. However, it is not easy to reconcile with the fact of this extreme poverty another fact mentioned about Diogenes, that he asked fees from listeners, in one case as much as a mina (Diog. L. vi. 2, 67).