He was once reproved by the ædiles of the Athenians, for wearing fine linen, and so he replied, “I will show you Theophrastus also clad in fine linen.” And as they did not believe him, he took them to a barber’s shop, and showed him to them as he was being shaved. At Thebes he was once scourged by the master of the Gymnasium, (though some say it was by Euthycrates, at Corinth), and dragged out by the feet; but he did not care, and quoted the line:— I feel, O mighty chief, your matchless might, Dragged, foot first, downward from th’ ethereal height.[76] But Diocles says that it was by Menedemus, of Eretria, that he was dragged in this manner, for that as he was a handsome man, and supposed to be very obsequious to Asclepiades, the Phliasian, Crates touched his thighs and said, “Is Asclepiades within?” And Menedemus was very much offended, and dragged him out, as has been already said; and then Crates quoted the above-cited line. VIII. Zeno, the Cittiæan, in his Apophthegms, says, that he once sewed up a sheep’s fleece in his cloak, without thinking of it; and he was a very ugly man, and one who excited laughter when he was taking exercise. And he used to say, when he put up his hands, “Courage, Crates, as far as your eyes and the rest of your body is concerned:— IX. “For you shall see those who now ridicule you, convulsed with disease, and envying your happiness, and accusing themselves of slothfulness.” One of his sayings was, “That a man ought to study philosophy, up to the point of looking on generals and donkey-drivers in the same light.” Another was, that those who live with flatterers, are as desolate as calves when in the company of wolves; for that neither the one nor the other are with those whom they ought to be, or their own kindred, but only with those who are plotting against them. X. When he felt that he was dying, he made verses on himself, saying:— You’re going, noble hunchback, you are going To Pluto’s realms, bent double by old age. For he was humpbacked from age. XI. When Alexander asked him whether he wished to see the restoration of his country, he said, “What would be the use of it? for perhaps some other Alexander would come at some future time and destroy it again. “But poverty and dear obscurity, Are what a prudent man should think his country For these e’en fortune can’t deprive him of.” He also said that he was:— A fellow countryman of wise Diogenes, Whom even envy never had attacked. Menander, in his Twin-sister, mentions him thus:— For you will walk with me wrapped in your cloak, As his wife used to with the Cynic Crates. XII. He gave his daughter to his pupils, as he himself used to say:— To have and keep on trial for a month. LIFE OF METROCLES.