And again he says that what he has gained from philosophy is A quart of lupins and to care for no one. This too is quoted as his ° : Hunger stops love, or, if not hunger, Time, Or, failing both these means of help, — a halter. He nourished in the 113th Olympiad. 6 According to Antisthenes in his Successions, the first impulse to the Cynic philosophy was given to him when he saw Telephus in a certain tragedy carrying a little basket and altogether in a wretched plight. So he turned his property into money, — for he belonged to a distinguished family,— and having thus collected about 200 talents, distributed that sum among his fellow-citizens. And (it is added) so sturdy a philosopher did he become that he is mentioned by the comic poet Philemon. At all events the latter says : In summer-time a thick cloak he would wear To be like Crates, and in winter rags. Diodes relates how Diogenes persuaded Crates to give up his fields to sheep pasture, and throw into the sea any money he had. In the home of Crates Alexander is said to have lodged, as Philip once lived in Hipparchia's. Often, too, certain of his kinsmen would come to visit him and try to divert him from his purpose. These he would drive from him with his stick, and his resolution was unshaken. Demetrius of Magnesia tells a story that he entrusted a banker with a sum of money on condition that, if his sons proved ordinary men he was to pay it to them, but, if they became