When Agathocles the Peripatetic was boasting


 

that he was first among the logicians—that there
was no other, he said: “Come now, Agathocles; if
there is no other, you are not first: if you are first,
then there are others.”
 
Cethegus the ex-consul, going by way of Greece
to Asia to be his father’s lieutenant, did and said
many ridiculous things. One of the friends of
Demonax, looking on, said that he was a great goodfor-nothing. ‘No, he isn’t, either,” said he—“nota
great one!”