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Show 00 Diogenes' Tub. Tee tub in which Diogenes, tho cynic, mado his home, was a great , earthen jar discarded from the Cybele torn jie. It had been used for wlno or oil for the sacrifice of tho temple and was sufficiently large to allow tho philosopher a reclining place. The truth of the tale has been called into question, although It is said that during the Poloponnesian war the Athenians dwelt In just such vessolB, and that even after tho death of Diogenes Di-ogenes such receptacles were used as dwelling places by the poor. |