Yes, my Spartan, and here is for the poor. There are a great many of them, very sorry for themselves and resentful of their helplessness. Tell them to dry their tears and cease their cries; explain to them that here one man is as good as another, and they will find those who were rich on earth no better than themselves. As for your Spartans, -you will not mind scolding them, from me, upon their present degeneracy?

No, no, Diogenes; leave Sparta alone; that is going too far; your other commissions I will execute.

Oh, well, let them off, if you care about it; but tell all the others what I said.