. St. Nicholas [serial]. the words he ut-tered on entering a theater just as all the restwere leaving. It is what I have been doingall my life, he said. In his old age, while on a voyage, he wascaptured by pirates and carried to Crete, where 43* he was put up for sale as a slave in the publicmarket. When asked by the auctioneer whathe could do, he replied : I can govern men; therefore sell me to onewho wants a master. Xenaides, a wealthy citizen of Corinth, wasso pleased by this reply that he immediatelypurchased Diogenes; and on his return to Cor-inth not only gave the philosopher his free-do
. St. Nicholas [serial]. the words he ut-tered on entering a theater just as all the restwere leaving. It is what I have been doingall my life, he said. In his old age, while on a voyage, he wascaptured by pirates and carried to Crete, where 43* he was put up for sale as a slave in the publicmarket. When asked by the auctioneer whathe could do, he replied : I can govern men; therefore sell me to onewho wants a master. Xenaides, a wealthy citizen of Corinth, wasso pleased by this reply that he immediatelypurchased Diogenes; and on his return to Cor-inth not only gave the philosopher his free-dom, but turned over to him the educationof his own children and the direction of hishousehold affairs. What sort of a man, O Diogenes, do youthink the great Socrates? some one asked. A madman, was his reply. And he little dreamed that, when at last heshould lay down his very light burden of life,leaving to the next poorer man his well-wornwallet, cloak, and staff, he himself would sooncome to be known as the mad CIENT BUST OF PLATO.
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