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. 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:— The waves surround vain Peres’ fruitful soil, And fertile acres crown the sea-born isle; Land which no parasite e’er dares invade, Or lewd seducer of a hapless maid; It bears figs, bread, thyme, garlic’s savoury charms, Gifts which ne’er tempt men to detested arms, They’d rather fight for gold than glory’s dreams. There is also an account-book of his much spoken of, which is drawn up in such terms as these:— Put down the cook for minas half a score, Put down the doctor for a drachma more: Five talents to the flatterer; some smoke To the adviser, an obol and a cloak For the philosopher; for the willing nymph, A talent. He was also nicknamed Door-opener, because he used to enter every house and give the inmates advice. These lines, too, are his:— All this I learnt and pondered in my mind, Drawing deep wisdom from the Muses kind, But all the rest is vanity. There is a line, too, which tells us that he gained from philosophy:— A peck of lupins, and to care for nobody. This, too, is attributed to him:— Hunger checks love; and should it not, time does. If both should fail you, then a halter choose. III. He flourished about the hundred and thirteenth olympiad.