• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      If true that makes Diogenes even more based for bringing him a plucked chicken and going ‘you think this is a man you dumbfuck?’

      E: actually can’t remember if that was Plato or Socrates

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 days ago

      I don’t know, but “plato”, meaning broad (shouldered, I suppose), was his wrestling name, so maybe.

      Still couldn’t dodge that chicken, though.

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      16 days ago

      Was he? Do you have a source I would love to read it. He himself fell out with the rulers of whatever city state he lived in in sicily, syracuse or whatever, and was sold into slavery, one of the fans of his writing, I think in Greece proper area but not sure, bought him, and freed him.