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He had married her, he said, from a persuasion that if he were able to bear with her bad temper, there could be nothing which he might not support. He died in the first year of the 95th Olympiad, aged seventy. From the French of FÉNELON Diogenes the Cynic, son of Icesius a banker, was born about the 91st Olympiad, in Sinope, a city of Paphlagonia.
He was accused of having forged money, in concert with his father. Icesius was arrested, and died in prison. Alarmed at the fate of his father, Diogenes fled to Athens. When he had arrived at that city, he inquired for Antisthenes; but the latter, having resolved never to take a scholar, repulsed him and beat him off with his stick. Diogenes was by no means discouraged by this treatment.
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