Diogenes (di'oj'-e-nez). A philosopher of the school of Cynics. Diogenes was born in Asia Minor. Becoming a citizen of Athens, he made himself notorious by his abnegation of all social laws and customs, lived upon alms, and took up his abode in a tub. Of Diogenes' cynicism many well-known anecdotes are related. Died at Corinth, at the age of 90, 323 BC.

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