Epigram 9.145

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Codex Palatinus 23, p. 379

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ἐλθὼν εἰς ἀίδην, ὅτε δὴ σοφὸν ἤνυσε γῆρας,
Διογένης ὁ κύων Κροῖσον ἰδὼν ἐγέλα,
καὶ στρώσας ὁ γέρων τὸ τριβώνιον ἐγγὺς ἐκείνου,
τοῦ πολὺν ἐκ ποταμοῦ χρυσὸν ἀφυσσαμένου,

εἶπεν
ἐμοὶ καὶ νῦν πλείων τόπος: ὅσσα γὰρ εἶχον,

πάντα φέρω σὺν ἐμοί: Κροῖσε, σὺ δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἔχεις.

— Paton edition

Diogenes the cynic, on his arrival in Hades, after his wise old age was finished, laughed when he saw Croesus. Spreading his cloak on the ground near the king, who once drew great store of gold from the river, he said : "Now, too, I take up more room than you ; for all I had I have brought with me, but you, Croesus, have nothing."

— Paton edition

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