his plays, namely in the Hippocomus, he mentions him thus:—
But he was a man of such gravity that he despised glory, and sought only for truth.
III. He wrote some jests mingled with serious treatises, and two essays on the Appetites, and an Exhortation.
LIFE OF ONESICRITUS.
I. Onesicritus is called by some authors an Æginetan, but Demetrius the Magnesian affirms that he was a native of Astypalæa. He also was one of the most eminent of the disciples of Diogenes.
II. And he appears in some points to resemble Xenophon. For Xenophon joined in the expedition of Cyrus, and Onesicritus in that of Alexander; and Xenophon wrote the Cyropædia, and Onesicritus wrote an account of the education of Alexander. Xenophon, too, wrote a Panegyric on Cyrus, and Onesicritus one on Alexander. They were also both similar to one another in style, except that a copyist is naturally inferior to the original.