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The cynic philosopher is said to have lived in a tub.
“The whole world was not half so wide
To Alexander, when he cried
Because he had but one to subʹdue,
As was a paltry narrow tub to
Diogenes.”
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Butler: Hudibras, i. 3.
Diogʹenes. Romanus IV., emperor of the East (1607–1071).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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