he discharged the phlegm into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle. Others father this upon Aristippus. One day he shouted out for men, and when people collected, hit out at them with his stick, saying, " It was men I called for, not scoundrels." This is told by Hecato in the first book of his Anecdotes. Alexander is reported to have said, " Had I not been Alexander, I should have liked to be Diogenes." The word " disabled " (o.va.7njpovs), Diogenes held, ought to be applied not to the deaf or blind, but to those who have no wallet (irrjpai). One day he made his way with head half shaven into a party of young revellers, as Metrocles relates in his Anecdotes, and was roughly handled by them. Afterwards he entered on a tablet the names of those who had struck him and went about with the tablet hung round his neck, till he had covered them with ridicule and brought universal blame and discredit upon them. He described himself as a hound of the sort which all men praise, but no one, he added, of his admirers dared go out hunting along with him. When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, M Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves." To those who said to him, " You are an old man ; take a rest," " What ? " he replied, " if I were running in the stadium, ought I to slacken my pace when approaching the goal ? ought I not rather to put on speed ? " Having been invited to a dinner, he declared that he wouldn't go ; for, the last time he went, his host had not expressed a proper gratitude. He would walk upon snow barefoot and do the other things mentioned above. Not only so ; he