you wouldn't have paid court to Dionysius." When some one said, " Most people laugh at you," his reply was, " And so very likely do the asses at them ; but as they don't care for the asses, so neither do I care for them." One day observing a youth studying philosophy, he said, " Well done, Philosophy, that thou divertest admirers of bodily charms to the real beauty of the soul." When some one expressed astonishment at the votive offerings in Samothrace, his comment was, " There would have been far more, if those who were not saved had set up offerings." But others attribute this remark to Diagoras of Melos. To a handsome youth, who was going out to dinner, he said, " You will come back a worse man." When he came back and said next day, " I went and am none the worse for it," Diogenes said, " Not Worse-man (Chiron), but Lax-man (Eurytion)." a He was asking alms of a bad-tempered man, who said, " Yes, if you can persuade me." If I could have persuaded you," said Diogenes, " I Mould have persuaded you to hang yourself." He was returning from Lacedaemon to Athens ; and on some one asking, " Whither and whence ? " he replied, " From the men's apartments to the women's." He was returning from Olympia, and when somebody inquired whether there was a great crowd, " Yes," he said, " a great crowd, but few who could be called men." Libertines he compared to figtrees growing upon a cliff : whose fruit is not enjoyed by any man, but is eaten by ravens and vultures. When Phryne set up a golden statue of Aphrodite in Delphi, Diogenes is said to have written upon it : " From the licentiousness of Greece."