strict watch over him. When a youth effeminahlv attired put a question to him, he declined to answer unless he pulled up his robe and showed whether he was man or woman. A youth was playing cottabos in the baths. Diogenes said to him, " The better you play, the worse it is for you." At a feast ; certain people kept throwing all the bones to him as they would have done to a dog. a Thereupon he played a dog's trick and drenched them. Rhetoricians and all who talked for reputation he used to call " thrice human," meaning thereby " thrice wretched." An ignorant rich man he used to call " the sheep with the golden fleece." Seeing a notice on the house of a profligate, " To be sold," he said, " I knew well that after such surfeiting you would throw up the owner." To a young man who complained of the number of people who annoyed him by their attentions he said, " Cease to hang out a sign of invitation." Of a public bath which was dirty he said, " When people have bathed here, where are they to go to get clean ? " There was a stout musician whom everybody depreciated and Diogenes alone praised. When asked why, he said, " Because being so big, he yet sings to his lute and does not turn brigand." The musician who was always deserted by his audience he greeted with a " Hail chanticleer," and when asked why he so addressed him, replied, " Because your song makes every one get up." A young man was delivering a set speech, when Diogenes, having rilled the front fold of his dress with lupins, began to eat them, standing right opposite to him. Having thus drawn off the attention of the assemblage, he said he was greatly surprised