In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

Timon of Phlius calls him " the riddler " ( ainiktēs ) according to Diogenes Laërtius, who had just explained that Heraclitus wrote his book " rather unclearly " ( asaphesteron ) so that only the " capable " should attempt it.

The Greek biographer Diogenes Laertius explained that Pyrrho's equanimity and detachment from the world were acquired in India.

It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic ( although this is never explained in the original stories ) and was co-founded by Sherlock's indolent older brother, Mycroft Holmes.

He played a decisive political role in the transition of power from Michael VI to Isaac I Komnenos in 1057 ; then from Isaac Komnenos to Constantine X Doukas ( 1059 ); and then again from Romanos IV Diogenes to Michael VII Doukas ( 1071 ).

Diogenes responds, " Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say.

Diogenes having nothing to do – of course no one thought of giving him a job – was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub energetically up and down the Craneum ; an acquaintance asked for, and got, the explanation: " I do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude ; I am rolling my tub to be like the rest.

Alexander then declared, " If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.

Diogenes stated that " other dogs bite their enemies, I bite my friends to save them.

Of Diogenes it is said: " Asked where he came from, he answered: ' I am a citizen of the world ( kosmopolitês )'".

Of Diogenes it is said: " Asked where he came from, he answered: ' I am a citizen of the world ( kosmopolitês )'".

Diogenes Laertius attributes it to Thales ( Lives I. 40 ), but also notes that Antisthenes in his Successions of Philosophers attributes it to Phemonoe, a mythical Greek poetess, though admitting that it was appropriated by Chilon.

Diogenes searching for a Man is one of the principal of these ; others are about religious themes.

Giovanni Castiglione-The Philosopher Diogenes searching for an honest man. jpg | Diogenes searches for an honest man.

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

The main source for the life of Heraclitus is Diogenes Laërtius, although some have questioned the validity of his account as " a tissue of Hellenistic anecdotes, most of them obviously fabricated on the basis of statements in the preserved fragments.

Mycroft is described as even more gifted than Sherlock in matters of observation and deduction, but he lacks Sherlock's drive and energy, preferring to spend his time at ease in the Diogenes Club, described as " a club for the most un-clubbable men in London ".

Diogenes Laertius states that Xenophon was sometimes known as the " Attic Muse " for the sweetness of his diction ; very few poets wrote in the Attic dialect.

Diogenes Laertius, a fourth source for information about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument.

A plausible chronology for his life is as follows: He was born 334 / 3 BC, and came to Athens in 312 / 11 BC at the age of 22 ( Diogenes Laërtius, vii.

He studied philosophy for about 10 years ( Diogenes Laërtius, vii.

The passage in which the above occurs has been described as " elaborately ironical ", making it unclear which of its aspects may be taken seriously, although Diogenes Laertius later confirms that there were indeed seven such individuals who were held in high esteem for their wisdom well before Plato's time.

In 1067, he had been considered as a possible husband for the empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa, widowed wife of Constantine X, but she eventually set her heart on Romanos IV Diogenes.

" Diogenes in his barrel and Crates of Thebes who gives up wealth for virtue.

* Antonius Diogenes ( 2nd century BC ), A Greek romance writer, most notable for his work The Wonders of Thule

* Diogenes syndrome, a misnomer for a mental disorder

On the other hand, modern scholars advise that we treat Diogenes ' testimonia with care, especially when he fails to cite his sources: " Diogenes has acquired an importance out of all proportion to his merits because the loss of many primary sources and of the earlier secondary compilations has accidentally left him the chief continuous source for the history of Greek philosophy.

But for them, we should be without the most important fragments of the writings of the Eleatics, of Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Apollonia, and others, which were at that time already very scarce, as well as without many extracts from the lost books of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Eudemus: but for them we should hardly be able to unriddle the doctrine of the Categories, so important for the system of the Stoics.

While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy ( Diogenes Laertius i. 109 – 115 ).

Antisthenes certainly adopted a rigorous ascetic lifestyle, and he developed many of the principles of Cynic philosophy which became an inspiration for Diogenes and later Cynics.

Theophrastus presided over the Peripatetic school for thirty-five years, and died at the age of eighty-five according to Diogenes.

Diogenes Laërtius tells of other stories involving Xanthippe's supposed abusiveness, but he does not cite any source for them.

Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds.

According to Diogenes Laertius Eumolpus was the father of Musaeus.

His father minted coins for a living and when Diogenes took to " defacement of the currency ", he was banished from the city.

It seems likely that Diogenes was also enrolled into the banking business aiding his father.

Diogenes Laertius also records that Epicharmus ' father was the prominent physician Helothales, who moved the family to Megara, Sicily when Epicharmus was just a few months old.

Herodotus speaks of him as contemporary with Hippocrates, the father of Peisistratus, and Diogenes Laertius states that he was an old man in the 52nd Olympiad ( 572 BC ), and that he was elected an ephor in Sparta in the 56th Olympiad ( 556 / 5 BC ).

Diogenes Laërtius has preserved many clever and witty remarks by Zeno, the veracity of which cannot be ascertained.

Although Ionia was a centre of Western philosophy, the scholars it produced, including Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, had such diverse viewpoints that it cannot be said to be a specific school of philosophy.

The modern theory is that " Laertius " is a nickname, to distinguish him from the many other people called Diogenes in the ancient world, and derived from the Homeric epithet " Diogenes Laertiade ," used in addressing Odysseus.