A golden tripod came up in a fishing net, and an oracle said it belonged to the wisest. Each sage who got it passed it on to another. In one telling, it ended up with the god at Delphi.
From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
A golden tripod came up in a fishing net, and an oracle said it belonged to the wisest. Each sage who got it passed it on to another. In one telling, it ended up with the god at Delphi.
From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
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