Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

— Diogenes Laërtius The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)

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