and the moon, but overlook matters close at hand ; that the orators should make a fuss about justice in their speeches, but never practise it ; or that the avaricious should cry out against money, while inordinately fond of it. He used also to condemn those who praised honest men for being superior to money, while themselves envying the very rich. He was moved to anger that men should sacrifice to the gods to ensure health and in the midst of the sacrifice should feast to the detriment of health. He was .astonished that when slaves saw their masters were gluttons, they did not steal some of the viands. He would praise those who were about to marry and refrained, those who intending to go a voyage never set sail, those who thinking to engage in politics do no such thing, those also who purposing to rear a family do not do so, and those who make ready to live with potentates, yet never come near them after all. He used to say, moreover, that we ought to stretch out our hands to our friends with the fingers open and not closed. a Menippus b in his Sale of Diogenes tells how, when he was captured and put up for sale, he was asked what he could do. He replied, " Govern men." And he told the crier to give notice in case anybody wanted to purchase a master for himself. Having been forbidden to sit down, " It makes no difference," said he, " for in whatever position fishes lie, they still find purchasers." And he said he marvelled that before we buy a jar or dish we try whether it rings true, but if it is a man are content merely to look Ambrosius, reads " Hermippus " ; for among 1 the works of Menippus enumerated by Laertius below (§ 101) there is no mention of a " Sale of Diogenes."