====== Crates of Thebes | Demetrius of Phalerum, On Style 170 ======
<blockquote>170. Even sensible persons will indulge in jests on such 
occasions as feasts and carousals, or when they are addressing 
a word of warning to men inclined to good living. A refer- 
ence to ' the far-gleaming meal-bag ' may then be found 
salutary. The same may be said of the poetry of Crates ; 
and it would be well if you were to read the ' Praise of the 
Lentil ' in a party of free-livers. The Cynic humour is, for 
the most part, of this character. Such jests, in fact, play the 
part of maxims and admonitions.\\
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Demetrius. On Style. The Greek Text of Demetrius, De Elocutione, edited after the Paris Manuscript with Introduction, Translation, Facsimiles, Etc. by Rhys Roberts, Litt.D., Cambridge: At the University Press, 1902.