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Chad Diogenes (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Diogenes was captured by pirates while on voyage to Aegina and sold as a slave ... Being asked his trade, he replied that he knew no trade but that of governing men, and that he wished to be sold to a man who needed a master.

Fucking savage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Alexander the Great was captured by pirates too. He forced them to increase his ransom because he was insulted that it was so small, and spent much of his time forcing them to listen to the poetry he wrote. Which is also hilarious IMO.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Nope, that was Julius Caesar. Who also told the pirates that he would return and crucify every one of them. After his release, he assembled a posse, went to the city he'd been captured in - where the dumb pirates had returned to - captured them all and turned them over to authorities.

When the authorities were not taking swift enough action, Caesar demanded the pirates be remanded to his custody, and because of his sociopolitical clout, they were - and summarily crucified.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's suspicious that you had that ready to go, ngl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I didn't, actually, took like 10 seconds on Google tho

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Ave, true to Caesar.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Oh. I always get those two mixed up.

Still hilarious

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Greek philosophers had no chill apparently

Zeno was killed while he was engaged in a plot to overthrow the tyrant Nearchus. This account tells that he was captured, and that he was killed after he refused to give the names of his co-conspirators.[3][8] Before his death, Zeno is said to have asked to whisper the names into Nearchus's ear, only to bite the ear when Nearchus approached, holding on until he was killed.[3]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn. Is there a list of Diogenes quotes? I've heard a couple but this one was new to me.

[–] gbuttersnaps 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My favorite is when he got caught masturbating in public and responded with "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly." Or when Plato was teaching a class and defined a man as a featherless biped, and Diogenes brought a plucked chicken to the class and said "Behold, Plato's man!"