Διογένους (Diogenous)

Διογένους is an Ancient Greek form of Διογένης, meaning “Diogenes — Diogenes (the Cynic; also Diogenes Laertius)”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of διογενής, “Zeus-born”.

Found 86 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.78: … ωσκε τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὡς τὰ σκεύη μὲν ἐν ταῖς ἀγορασίαις κομπούντων, τοὺς δὲ βίους εἰκῆ δοκιμαζόντων· οἱ δὲ τοῦτο Διογένους φασί. καί ποτε παρὰ πότον κελεύσαντος Διονυσίου ἕκαστον ἐν πορφυρᾷ ἐσθῆτι ὀρχήσασθαι, τὸν μὲν Πλάτωνα μὴ προσ …

Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 528: τύμβον κατʼ αὐτὸν Διογενοῦς Ἀμφίονος·

All forms of Διογένης (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.