When Thrasyllus the Cynic asked him for a shilling, he said ‘That is not a fit gift for a king to give.’ And when Thrasyllus said, ‘Then give me two hundred pounds,’ he retorted, ‘ But that is not a fit gift for a Cynic to receive.’ 1
1 The story ist old more fully in Moralia, 551 E, and by Seneca, De beneficiis, ii. 17. 1.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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