On seeing an aristocrat who set great store on
the breadth of his purple band, Demonax, taking
hold of the garment and calling his attention to it,


 

said in his ear: “A sheep wore this before you, and
he was but a sheep for all that!”

 

When he was taking a bath and hesitated to
enter the steaming water, a man reproached him
with cowardice. “Tell me,’ said he, “was my
country at stake in the matter?”