His remark to the proconsul was at once
clever and cutting. This man was one of the sort
that use pitch to remove hair from their legs and
their whole bodies. When a Cynic mounted a stone
and charged him with this, accusing him of
effeminacy, he was angry, had the fellow hauled
down and was on the point of confining him in the
stocks or even sentencing him to exile. But Demonax,
who was passing by, begged him to pardon the man
for making bold to speak his mind in the traditional
Cynic way. The proconsul said: “Well, I will let
him off for you this time, but if he ever dares to do
such a thing again, what shall be done to him?”
"Have him depilated!" said Demonax.
 
One to whom the emperor had entrusted the
command of legions and of the most important
province asked Demonax what was the best way to
exercise authority. “Don’t lose your temper!” said
he: “Do little talking and much listening!”
 
When someone asked him: “Do you eat honeycakes?”’ he replied: “What! do you think the
bees lay up their honey just for fools?”



 

 

On seeing near the Painted Porch a statue with
its hand cut off, he remarked that it was pretty
late in the day for the Athenians to be honouring
Cynegirus
 Brother of Aeschylus, who lost his hand at Marathon,
and the Painted Porch was so called from a fresco by Polygnotus representing the battle. 
with a bronze statue.

 

Noting that Rufinus the Cypriote (I mean the
‘lame man of the school of Aristotle) was spending
much time in the walks of the Lyceum, he
remarked: “Pretty cheeky, I call it—a lame
Peripatetic (Stroller)!”