====== Menedemus of Etetria ====== ===== Diogenes Laertius, Book 2 ยง140 =====
At first [Menedemus] was despised, being called a **cynic** and a humbug by the Eretrians. But afterwards he was greatly admired, so much so that they entrusted him with the government of the state. \\ [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_II|Source]]