How a philosopher toasts a god

How a philosopher toasts a god he’s drinking with —

“One of the gods shall fall by the hand of mortal man.”

– Anaxarchus of Abdera, offering a dark (& ironic) toast to the “divine” conqueror, Alexander

– per Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers IX.60

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