even attempted to eat meat raw, but could not I manage to digest it. He once found Demosthenes / the orator lunching at an inn, and, when he retired within, Diogenes said, " All the more you will be inside the tavern." When some strangers expressed a wish to see Demosthenes, he stretched out his middle ringer and said, " There goes the demagogue of Athens." Some one dropped a loaf of bread and was ashamed to pick it up ; whereupon Diogenes, wishing to read him a lesson, tied a rope to the neck of a wine-jar and proceeded to drag it across the Ceramicus. He used to say that he followed the example of the trainers of choruses ; for they too set the note a little high, to ensure that the rest should hit the right note. Most people, he would say, are so nearly mad that a finger makes all the difference. For, if you go along with your middle finger stretched out, some one will think you mad, but, if it's the little finger, he will not think so. Very valuable things, said he, were bartered for things of no value, and vice versa. At all events a statue fetches three thousand drachmas, while a quart of barley-flour is sold for two copper coins. To Xeniades, who purchased him, he said, " Come, see that you obey orders." When he quoted the line, Backward the streams flow to their founts, Diogenes asked, " If you had been ill and had purchased a doctor, would you then, instead of obeying him, have said "'Backward the streams flow to their founts ' " ? Some one wanted to study philosophy under him. Diogenes gave him a tunny to carry and told him to follow him. And when for shame the man threw it away and departed,