[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Diogenes</orth>, <p> <sense><trans lang="en">A fa<*>ous philosopher of their sect, that for their vncurteous demeanour were called Cinike or doggishe. He li. ued without any manner of prouision from day to day begging his meate and drinke. In the nights he lay in the common porches and galleries of the citie, in the day time he vsed for his house a tunne, which he continuallie sat in. Ans when he turned his tunne which way his pleasure was, hee merrily made his aduaunt, that his house would turne with euerie time. For in the winter he did set the mouth toward the south, in the sunmer soward the north, and which waye soeuer the sunne did bend, Diogenes his tumbling palaice did turne it selfe Great king Alexander on a time moned <04> the fame of this philosopher, came to him as he was sitting in his tunne, and being in adiniration of that contempte of the world that in him appeared, like a noble prince, bad him aske at his hand whatsoeuer he would destre. Sir quoth he, then I pray you stande aslde and take not from me, that you can not giue: meaning the warmenesse of the sunne, towarde which at % time he had turned his tunne, Alexãder was not only nothing displeased with the vncurtcons answere of this currish Philosopher, but also sayd openly that if he were not Alexander, hee conlde finde in his hart to be Diogenes. He, died being nintie yeares of age, and being at the poynt of death, willed his bodie to be left vuburied: and when his friÊds asked him whether hee would lye aboue% groÛd to be <*>euoured of byrdes and beastes, no friendes saith he, but lay you by me a little staffe, % I may feare thÊ away: therin deryding their curiositie, that seemed to be so careful for burying the dead carkasse, as though there had bene great difference, whether it were deuoured of beastes, or eaten and consumed of wormes in the ground.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Dĭŏgĕnes, is, m., = *dioge/nhs. I. Apolloniates, a celebrated Ionian philosopher, pupil of Anaximenes, Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 29.—II.The well-known Cynic philosopher of Sinope, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 104; id. N. D. 3, 34; id. Mur. 36 et saep.—III.A Stoic, teacher of Carneades and Laelius, Cic. Div. 1, 3, 6; id. Fin. 2, 8; id. Tusc. 4, 3; id. de Sen. 7 et saep.—IV.A friend of M. Caelius Rufus, Cic. Fam. 2, 12, 2; id. Cael. ib. 8, 8, 10.