An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Plato angered the ruler of Syracuse, and one account says the ruler had him sold as a slave. A man from Cyrene who happened to be there paid for his freedom and sent him home to Athens.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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