‘Moreover, when questions were unanswerable he
always had an apt retort ready. When a man asked
him’ banteringly: “1f I should burn a thousand
pounds of wood, Demonax, how many pounds of
smoke would it make?” he replied: “Weigh the
ashes: all the rest will be smoke.”

 
A man named Polybius, quite uneducated and
ungrammatical, said: “The emperor has honoured
‘me with the Roman citizenslfip.” “Oh, why
didn’t he make you a Greek instead of a Roman?”
said he.