some time after on meeting him he laughed and said, " The friendship between you and me was broken by a tunny." The version given by Diocles, however, is as follows. Some one having said to him, " Lay your commands upon us, Diogenes," he took him away and gave him a cheese to carry, which cost half an obol. The other declined ; whereupon he remarked, " The friendship between you and me is broken by a little cheese worth half an obol." One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, " A child has beaten me in plainness of living." He also threw away his bowl when in like manner he saw a child who had broken his plate taking up his lentils with the hollow part of a morsel of bread. He used also to reason thus : " All things belong to the gods. The wise are friends of the gods, and friends hold things in common. Therefore all things belong to the wise." One day he saw a woman kneeling before the gods in an ungraceful attitude, and wishing to free her of superstition, according to Zoilus of Perga, he came forward and said, " Are you not afraid, my good woman, that a god may be standing behind you ? — for all things are full of his presence — and you may be put to shame ? " He dedicated to Asclepius a bruiser who, whenever people fell on their faces, used to run up to them and bruise them. All the curses of tragedy, he used to say, had lighted upon him. At all events he was A homeless exile, to his country dead. A wanderer who begs his daily bread. 3 But he claimed that to fortune he could oppose