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Diogenes

Diogenes \Di*og"e*nes\, n. A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.

Diogenes' crab (Zo["o]l.), a species of terrestrial hermit crabs ( Cenobita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops.

Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.

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Diogenes (disambiguation)

Diogenes (; , Diogénēs, "born of Zeus") is a Greek name shared by several important historical figures, the best-known of whom is the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (412–323 BC), better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes.

Diogenes may also refer to:

Diogenes (journal)

Diogenes is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of philosophy and the humanities. The journal's editors are Maurice Aymard ( Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and Luca Maria Scarantino ( IULM). It has been in publication since 1953 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH), with the support of UNESCO.

Diogenes (genus)

Diogenes is a genus of hermit crabs.

  • Diogenes alias McLaughlin & Holthuis, 2001
  • Diogenes avarus Heller, 1865
  • Diogenes bicristimanus Alcock, 1905
  • Diogenes biramus Morgan, 1987
  • Diogenes brevirostris Stimpson, 1858
  • Diogenes canaliculatus Komai, Reshmi & Kumar, 2013
  • Diogenes capricorneus Grant & McCulloch, 1906
  • Diogenes costatus Henderson, 1893
  • Diogenes crosnieri Dechancé, 1964
  • Diogenes custos (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Diogenes deflectomanus Wang & Tung, 1980
  • Diogenes denticulatus Chevreux & Bouvier, 1891
  • Diogenes dorotheae Morgan, 1991
  • Diogenes dubius (Herbst, 1804)
  • Diogenes edwardsii (DeHaan, 1849)
  • Diogenes extricatus Stebbing, 1910
  • Diogenes fasciatus Rahayu & Forest, 1995
  • Diogenes foresti Rahayu & Hortle, 2002
  • Diogenes goniochirus Forest, 1956
  • Diogenes granulatus Miers, 1880
  • Diogenes guttatus Henderson, 1888
  • Diogenes inglei McLaughlin & Clark, 1997
  • Diogenes investigatoris Alcock, 1905
  • Diogenes izananiae Asakura, 2006
  • Diogenes jousseaumei (Bouvier, 1897)
  • Diogenes jubatus (Nobili, 1903)
  • Diogenes karwarensis Nayak & Neelakantan, 1989
  • Diogenes klaasi Rahayu & Forest, 1995
  • Diogenes laevicarpus Rahayu, 1996
  • Diogenes lanaris Yap-Chiongco, 1937
  • Diogenes leptocerus Forest, 1957
  • Diogenes lophochir Morgan, 1989
  • Diogenes maclaughlinae Nayak & Neelakantan, 1985
  • Diogenes manaarensis (Henderson, 1893)
  • Diogenes mercatoris Forest, 1952
  • Diogenes merguiensis De Man, 1888
  • Diogenes miles (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Diogenes mixtus Lanchester, 1902
  • Diogenes moosai Rahayu & Forest, 1995
  • Diogenes nitidimanus Terao, 1913
  • Diogenes ortholepis Forest, 1961
  • Diogenes ovatus Miers, 1881
  • Diogenes pallescens Whitelegge, 1897
  • Diogenes paracristimanus Wang & Dong, 1977
  • Diogenes patae Asakura & Godwin, 2006
  • Diogenes penicillatus Stimpson, 1858
  • Diogenes persicus (Nobili, 1905)
  • Diogenes planimanus Henderson, 1893
  • Diogenes pugilator (Roux, 1829)
  • Diogenes rectimanus Miers, 1884
  • Diogenes senex Heller, 1865
  • Diogenes spinicarpus Rahayu & Forest, 1995
  • Diogenes spinifrons (De Haan, 1849)
  • Diogenes tirmiziae Siddiqui & McLaughlin, 2003
  • Diogenes tomentosus Wang & Tung, 1980
  • Diogenes tumidus Rahayu & Forest, 1995
  • Diogenes violaceus Henderson, 1893
  • Diogenes viridis Haig & Ball, 1988
  • Diogenes waltairensis Kamalaveni, 1950
Diogenes (British magazine)

Diogenes, a Light upon many Subjects was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1853 with Robert Kemp Philp as the proprietor. Issue Number 1 appeared on 1 January 1853. The last issue, Number 137, appeared on 11 August 1855.

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Jewels Androclus and the Lion Horatius at the Bridge Julius Caesar The Sword of Damocles Damon and Pythias A Laconic Answer The Ungrateful Guest Alexander and Bucephalus Diogenes the Wise Man The Brave Three Hundred Socrates and his House The King and his Hawk Doctor Goldsmith The Kingdoms The Barmecide Feast The Endless Tale The Blind Men and the Elephant Maximilian and the Goose Boy The Inchcape Rock Whittington and his Cat Casabianca Antonio Canova Picciola Mignon CONCERNING THESE STORIES.

Diogenes Laertius also relates of him, that one day meeting a man who was cruelly beating a dog, the Samian sage instantly detected in the piteous howls of the poor beast the cries of a dear friend of his long since deceased, and earnestly and successfully interceded for his rescue.

Willy McGilly, Diogenes Pontifex, John Pandemonium, Aloysius Shiplap, names like that.

As a sidenote, I learned that Alexius befriended the sons of Romanus IV Diogenes.

It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.

While Diogenes was making the high-speed transfer, the Earther took a last look around.

The Stadtholder, Diogenes, the two caitiffs, all standing round the one horse.

Diogenes, also, another pupil of Anaximenes, said that a certain air was the original substance of things out of which all things were produced, but that it was possessed of a divine reason, without which nothing could be produced from it.

It's cat piss under the bridge, as we used to say at the old Diogenes Club.

He was this much I knew by some seven years the senior in age to my great friend, and was a founder member of the Diogenes Club, that peculiar institution whose members are ever forbidden to converse with one another.

Diogenes riposted with a quaint, inane laugh, "as to deny me a tankard of Spanish wine, which might put thee in possession of my secret — a secret, good Jan, worth yearly pensions and more to his lordship.