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!”