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One of the Spartans saw Diogenes the Cynic holding his arms around a bronze statue in very cold weather, 1 and asked Diogenes if he were cold; and when Diogenes said ‘No,’ the other said,‘What great thing are you doing then ?’
1 A part ofh is self-imposed training to inure himself to cold, as in the summer he used to roll in the hot sand to inure himself to heat, according to Diogenes Laertius, vi. 23.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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