When a man asked him if lie thought that the
soul was immortal, he said: “Yes, but no more so
than everything else.”

 
Touching Herodes he remarked that Plato was
right in saying that we have more than one soul,
for a man with only one could not feast Regilla
 Wife of Herodes. 
and
Polydeuces as if they were still alive and say what
he did in his lectures.

 

Once, on hearing the proclamation which precedes the mysteries, he made bold to ask the
Athenians publicly why they exclude foreigners,
particularly as the founder of the rite, Eumolpus,
was a foreigner and a Thracian to boot!

 

Again, when he was intending to make a voyage
in winter, one of his friends remarked: “Aren’t
you afraid the boat will capsize and the fishes will





 

eat you?” “I should be an ingrate,” said he, “if I
made any bones about letting the fishes eat me,
when I have eaten so many of them!”

 

An. orator whose delivery was wretched was
advised by him to practise and exercise; on his
replying: “I am always reciting to myself,”
Demonax answered: “Then no wonder you recite
that way, with a fool for a hearer!”