all.” When men are haughty and arrogant, he declared we should cut down their tall stature and leave them their spirit unimpaired. Children should honour their parents at home, out-of-doors everyone they meet, and in solitude themselves. In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord. All these sayings seem to be set down to his credit. There have been twenty noteworthy men called Demetrius: (1) arhetorician of Chalcedon, older than Thrasymachus ; (2) the subject of this notice ; (3) a Peripatetic of Byzantium ; (4) one called the graphic writer, clear in narrative; he was also a painter ; (5) a native of Aspendus, a pupil of Apollonius of Soli ; (6) a native of Callatis, who wrote a geography of Asia and Europe in twenty books ; (7) a Byzantine, who wrote a history of the migration of the Gauls from Europe into Asia in thirteen books, and another work in eight books dealing with Antiochus and Ptolemy and their settlement of Libya; (8) the sophist who lived at Alexandria, author of handbooks of rhetoric ; (9) a grammarian of Adramyttium, surnamed Ixion because he was thought to be unjust to Hera; (10) a grammarian of Cyrene, surnamed Wine-jar, an eminent man; (11) a native of Scepsis, a man of wealth and good birth, ardently devoted to learning ; he was also the means of bringing his countryman Metrodorus into prominence; (12) a grammarian of Erythrae enrolled as a citizen of