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He came to be a distinguished man; so much so that he is even mentioned by the comic poet Menander. At any rate in one of his plays, The Groom, his words are: One Monimus there was, a wise man, Philo, But not so very famous. A. He, you mean, Who carried the scrip? B. Nay, not one scrip, but three. Yet never a word, so help me Zeus, spake he To match the saying, Know thyself, nor such Famed watchwords. Far beyond all these he went, Your dusty mendicant, pronouncing wholly vain All man’s supposings. Monimus indeed showed himself a very grave moralist, so that he ever despised mere opinion and sought only truth.
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He has left us, besides some trifles blended with covert earnestness, two books, On Impulses and an Exhortation to Philosophy.
Chapter 4. ONESICRITUS (flor. 330 B.C.)
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Onesicritus some report to have been an Aeginetan, but Demetrius of Magnesia says that he was a native of Astypalaea. He too was one of the distinguished pupils of Diogenes. His career seems to have resembled that of Xenophon; for Xenophon joined the expedition of Cyrus, Onesicritus that of Alexander; and the former wrote the Cyropaedia, or Education of Cyrus, while the latter has described how Alexander was educated: the one a laudation of Cyrus, the other of Alexander. And in their diction they are not unlike: except that Onesicritus, as is to be expected in an imitator, falls short of his model.
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Amongst other pupils of Diogenes were Menander, who was nicknamed Drymus or Oakwood, a great admirer of Homer; Hegesias of Sinope, nicknamed Dog-collar; and Philiscus of Aegina mentioned above.
Chapter 5. CRATES (of Thebes, flor. 326 B.C.)
