Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History - Sarah B. Pomeroy. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, BOOK VI, Chapter 2. DIOGENES (404-323 B.C.) Chapter 2. DIOGENES (404-323 B.C.) [20] Diogenes was a native of Sinope, son of Hicesius, a banker. Diocles relates that he went into exile because his father was entrusted with the money of the state and adulterated the coinage. But Eubulides in his book on Diogenes says that Diogenes himself did this and was forced to leave home along with his father.
Moreover Diogenes himself actually confesses in his Pordalus that he adulterated the coinage. Some say that having been appointed to superintend the workmen he was persuaded by them, and that he went to Delphi or to the Delian oracle in his own city and inquired of Apollo whether he should do what he was urged to do. On reaching Athens he fell in with Antisthenes. . [24] He was great at pouring scorn on his contemporaries. . [25] Observing Plato one day at a costly banquet taking olives, "How is it," he said,3 "that you the philosopher who sailed to Sicily for the sake of these dishes, now when they are before you do not enjoy them ? " Hesiod: Werke und Tage (deutsche Übersetzung)
Werke - Hesiod, Eduard Eyth. Plutos: Ein Lustspeil de Artisophanes - Aristophanes. Hermes. Paratragodia: Untersuchung einer Komischen Form des Aristophanes - Peter Rau.