At Olympia, when the herald proclaimed Dioxippus to be victor over the men, Diogenes protested, "Nay, he is victorious over slaves, I over men."
Still, he was loved by the Athenians. At all events, when a youngster broke up his tub, they gave the boy a flogging and presented Diogenes with another.
Dionysius the Stoic says that after the Battle of Chaeronea, he was seized and dragged off to Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
For this he was admired and set free.
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.43
IMAGE: Max Pirner, Diogenes (1893)
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