May be, you know Menippus, Phoenician by birth, but a Cretan hound : A money-lender by the day — so he was called At Thebes when once on a time his house was broken into And he lost his all, not understanding what it is to be a Cynic, He hanged himself. Some authorities question the genuineness of the books attributed to him, alleging them to be by Dionysius and Zopyrus of Colophon, who, writing them for a joke, made them over to Menippus as a person able to dispose of them advantageously. There have been six men named Menippus : the first the man who wrote a History of the Lydians and abridged Xanthus ; the second my present subject the third a sophist of Stratonicea, a Carian by descent a ; the fourth a sculptor ; the fifth and sixth painters, both mentioned by Apollodorus. However, the writings of Menippus the Cynic are thirteen in number : Necromancy. Wills. Epistles artificially composed as if by the gods. Replies to the physicists and mathematicians and grammarians ; and A book about the birth of Epicurus ; and The School's reverence for the twentieth day. Besides other works. Chapter 9- MENEDEMUS Menedemus was a pupil of Colotes of Lampsacus. According to Hippobotus he had attained such a cum exercebar ipsis lubentibus ; quorum erat princeps Menippus Stratonicensis meo iudicio tota Asia illis temporibus disertissimus," and Strabo xvi. 660.