friends coming from Dionysins, Diogenes trampled upon his carpets and said, " I trample upon Plato's vainglory." Plato's reply was, " How much pride you expose to view, Diogenes, by seeming not to be proud." Others tell us that what Diogenes said was, " I trample upon the pride of Plato," who retorted, " Yes, Diogenes, with pride of another sort." Sotion, however, in his fourth book makes the Cynic address this remark to Plato himself. Diogenes once asked him for wine, and after that also for some dried figs ; and Plato sent him a whole jar full. Then the other said, " If some one iftks you how many two and two are, will you answer, Twenty ? So, it seems, you neither give as you are asked nor answer as you are questioned." Thus he scoffed at him as one who talked without end. Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, " Good men nowhere, but good boys at 'Lacedaemon." When one day he was gravely discoursing and nobody attended to him, he began whistling, and as people clustered about him, he reproached them with coming in all seriousness to hear nonsense, but slowly and contemptuously when the theme was serious. He would say that men strive in digging b and kicking to outdo one another, but no one strives to become a good man and true. And he would wonder that the grammarians should investigate the ills of Odysseus, while they were ignorant of their own. Or that the musicians should tune the strings of the lyre, while leaving the dispositions of their own souls discordant that the mathematicians should gaze at the sun part of the course of preparation which athletes underwent at Olympia.