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Now, Plato did not live to see Dionysius when he was in Corinth, but he was already dead;1 Diogenes of Sinope, however, on meeting him for the first time, said:
‘How little thou deservest, Dionysius, thus to live!’ Upon this, Dionysius stopped and said:
‘It is good of thee, O Diogenes, to sympathize with me in my misfortunes.’
‘How is that?’ said Diogenes;
‘Dost thou suppose that I am sympathizing with thee? Nay, I am indignant that such a slave as thou, and one so worthy to have grown old and died in the tyrant's estate, just as thy father did, should be living here with us in mirth and luxury.’
1 Plato died in 348 B.C.; Dionysius came to Corinth in 343 B.C.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
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