Ζῷον δίπουν ἄπτερον
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“Featherless biped”
- Plato’s famous definition of a human. In response, Diogenese of Sinope brought a plucked chicken to Plato’s Academy, saying:
οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Πλάτωνος ἄνθρωπος
“Here is the Platonic man!”
(via ancientpeoples)
August 12th, 2014 6:41pm
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