that they should desert the orator to look at himself. A very superstitious person addressed him thus, 11 With one blow I will break your head." " And I," said Diogenes, " by a sneeze from the left will make you tremble." Hegesias having asked him to lend him one of his writings, he said, " You are a simpleton, Hegesias ; you do not choose painted figs, but real ones ; and yet you pass over the true training and would apply yourself to written rules." When some one reproached him with his exile, his reply was, " Nay, it was through that, you miserable fellow, that I came to be a philosopher." Again, when some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, " And I them," said he, " to home-staying." Once he saw an Olympic victor tending sheep and thus accosted him : " Too quickly, my good friend, have you left Olympia for Nemea.° " Being asked why athletes are so stupid, his answer was, " Because they are built up of pork and beef." He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, " To get practice in being refused." In asking alms — as he did at first by reason of his poverty — he used this form : "If you have already given to anyone else, give to me also ; if not, begin with me." On being asked by a tyrant what bronze is best for a statue, he replied, " That of which Harmodius and Aristogiton were moulded." Asked how Dionysius treated his friends, " Like purses," he replied ; "so long as they are full, he hangs them up, and, when they are empty, he throws them away." Some one lately wed had set up on his door the notice : a Shepherd's Bush.