a gift," replied Diogenes, " I possess it; while, if it was a loan, I am using it." A supposititious son having told him that he had gold in the pocket of his dress, " True," said he, " and therefore you sleep with it under your pillow." On being asked what he had gained from philosophy, he replied, " This at least, if nothing else — to be prepared for every fortune." Asked where he came from, he said, " I am a citizen of the world." ° Certain parents were sacrificing to the gods, that a son might be born to them. " But," said he, " do you not sacrifice to " ensure what manner of man he shall turn out to be ? When asked for a subscription towards a club, he said to the president : Despoil the rest ; off Hector keep thy hands. 6 The mistresses of kings he designated queens ; for, said he, they make the kings do their bidding. When the Athenians gave Alexander the title of Dionysus, he said, " Me too you might make Sarapis." c Some one having reproached him for going into dirty places, his reply was that the sun too visits cesspools without being denied. W T hen he was dining in a temple, and in the course of the meal loaves not free from dirt were put on the table, he took them up and threw them away, declaring that nothing unclean ought to enter a temple. To the man who said to him, " You don't know anything, although you are a philosopher," he replied, " Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, 1793, still regarded it as Homeric, but found a fresh place for it, after xvi. 90. e " Sarapis " was represented, like Pluto, as seated with an animal by his side having the head of a dog, lion, or wolf combined (according to Baumeister) in " a three-headed Cerberus."