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Diogenes
Di-og′e-nes
,Noun.
A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323
B. C.
) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. Diogenes’ crab
(Zool.)
, a species of terrestrial hermit crabs (
– Cenobita Diogenes
), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops. Diogenes' tub
, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.