Metrocles

Beans become, improbably, one of several absurdist leitmotifs (see Metrocles, the Cynic who tried to starve himself after “reportedly fart [ing] when rehearsing a speech”); death-after-castration is another.

Exit Wisely 2009

Beans become, improbably, one of several absurdist leitmotifs (see Metrocles, the Cynic who tried to starve himself after “reportedly fart [ing] when rehearsing a speech”); death-after-castration is another.

Exit Wisely 2009

Metrocles of Maroneia, Crates 'brother-in-law, origi - nally a Peripatetic but later a pupil of Crates, played an important role, in the generation immediately after

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

In the generation after Metrocles we find a number of important writers.

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

And when Metrocles reproached him with her life, he said, "Is it my fault or hers?"

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Metrocles laughs at thee, who sleeps during winter among the sheep, in summer in the vestibules of temples, and challenges the king of the Persians, [310] who winters at Babylon, and summers in Media, to vie with him in happiness.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

And when Metrocles answered, "Her fault, but your misfortune," he rejoined, "How say you?

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

V. 32.] -- Metrodorus lived on twelve ounces a day, Epicurus upon less; Metrocles slept in winter abroad amongst sheep, in summer in the cloisters of churches:

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

V. 32.] -- Metrodorus lived on twelve ounces a day, Epicurus upon less; Metrocles slept in winter abroad amongst sheep, in summer in the cloisters of churches:

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18 Michel de Montaigne 1562