old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich. When Didymon, who was a rake, was once treating a girl's eye, " Beware," says Diogenes, " lest the oculist instead of curing the eye should ruin the pupil." On somebody declaring that his own friends were plotting against him, Diogenes exclaimed, " What is to be done then, if you have to treat " friends and enemies alike ? Being asked what was the most beautiful thing in the world, he replied, " Freedom of speech." On entering a boys' school, he found there many statues of the Muses, but few pupils. " By the help of the gods," said he, " schoolmaster, you have plenty of pupils." It was his habit to do everything in public, the works of Demeter and of Aphrodite alike. He used to draw out the following arguments. " If to breakfast be not absurd, neither is it absurd in the market-place ; but to breakfast is not absurd, therefore it is not absurd to breakfast in the marketplace." Behaving indecently in public, he wished " it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly." Many o ther savings are attributed to him, which it would take long to enumerate." He used to affirm that training was of two kinds, mental and bodily : the latter being that whereby, with constant exercise, perceptions are formed such as secure freedom of movement for virtuous deeds ; and the one half of this training is incomplete without the other, good health and strength being just as much included among the essential things, whether for body or soul. And he would adduce indisputable evidence to show how easily from specimens of Cynic maxims (<•/. note on § 10) are clearly an insertion, probably from a different source.