III. Menander, too, who was surnamed Drymus, was a pupil of Diogenes, and a great admirer of Homer: and so was Hegesæus of Sinope, who was nicknamed Clœus, and Philiscus the Æginetan, as we have said before.
LIFE OF CRATES.
I. Crates was a Theban by birth, and the son of Ascondus. He also was one of the eminent disciples of the Cynic. But Hippobotus asserts that he was not a pupil of Diogenes, but of Bryson the Achæan.
II. There are the following sportive lines of his quoted:—
There is also an account-book of his much spoken of, which is drawn up in such terms as these:—
He was also nicknamed Door-opener, because he used to enter every house and give the inmates advice. These lines, too, are his:—
There is a line, too, which tells us that he gained from philosophy:—
This, too, is attributed to him:—
III. He flourished about the hundred and thirteenth olympiad.
IV. Antisthenes, in his Successions, says that he, having once, in a certain tragedy, seen Telephus holding a date basket, and in a miserable plight in other respects, betook himself to the Cynic philosophy; and having turned his patrimony into money (for he was of illustrious extraction), he collected three hundred talents by that means, and divided them among the citizens. And after that he devoted himself to philosophy with such eagerness, that even Philemon the comic poet mentions him. Accordingly he says:—