====== Diogenes of Sinope | Apuleius, Florida 14 ======
These arguments and the like which he had heard from the lips of **Diogenes**, together with others which suggested themselves to him on other occasions, had such influence with Crates, that at last he rushed out into the market-place and there renounced all his fortune as being a mere filthy encumbrance, a burden rather than a benefit. \\ \\ Source: The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura, H. E. Butler, translator, Oxford Press (1909)