The Cup of Diogenes

First Greek Reader, by A. H. Bryce. Internet Archive link. This is reading 14 in the Anecdotes section. There are brief notes for each story and also a vocabulary in the back of the book. This book contains Witticism of Hierocles, Anecdotes, Fables of Aesop, and Dialogues of Lucian.

Θεασάμενός ποτε παιδίον ταῖς χερσὶ πῖνον, Διογένης ἐξέρριψε τῆς πήρας τὴν κοτύλην, εἰπων, "Παιδίον με νενίκηκεν εὐτελείᾳ." Ἐξέβαλε δὲ καὶ τὸ τρυβίον, ὁμοίως παιδίον θεασάμενος, ἐπειδὴ κατέαξε τὸ σκεῦος, τῷ κοίλῳ ἄρτῳ τὴν φακῆν ὑποδεχόμενον.

Θεασάμενός ποτε
παιδίον
πῖνον
ταῖς χερσὶ,
Διογένης
ἐξέρριψε
τῆς πήρας
τὴν κοτύλην,
εἰπων,
"Παιδίον
νενίκηκεν με
εὐτελείᾳ."

Ἐξέβαλε δὲ
καὶ τὸ τρυβίον,
ὁμοίως θεασάμενος
παιδίον,
ἐπειδὴ κατέαξε τὸ σκεῦος,
ὑποδεχόμενον
τὴν φακῆν
τῷ κοίλῳ ἄρτῳ.

Having once observed

a child

Θεασάμενός ποτε
παιδίον 

drinking from his hands,

ταῖς χερσὶ
πῖνον, 

Diogenes discarded

Διογένης ἐξέρριψε 

the cup from his sack

τῆς πήρας
τὴν κοτύλην, 

saying

εἰπων, 

"The child

has beaten me in thrift."

"Παιδίον
με νενίκηκεν
εὐτελείᾳ." 

He also threw away

his bowl,

Ἐξέβαλε δὲ 
καὶ τὸ τρυβίον, 

likewise having observed

the child

ὁμοίως
παιδίον θεασάμενος, 

after he had broken

his container

ἐπειδὴ
κατέαξε τὸ σκεῦος, 

taking his lentil-stew

in a hollowed-out

piece of bread

τῷ κοίλῳ ἄρτῳ
τὴν φακῆν
ὑποδεχόμενον.

Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl