Companion of Socrates, who was charming and took pleasure in all things. It is said that when his child was carrying money and was burdened by the weight he said, "Then cast off what's weighing you down." When he was being plotted against on a voyage he cast into the sea the things on account of which he was being conveyed. "For," he said, "the loss is my salvation." And he always ribbed Antisthenes for his dourness. And he came to Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily and won the drinking and led the dance for the others and put on purple clothes.[1] But Plato, when the robe was brought to him, said some iambics of Euripides: "I would not put on feminine clothes, having been born male, and from a male line."[2] Aristippos took it and said with a laugh [some lines] of the same poet: "for the moderate mind will not be corrupted in Bacchic revelries."[3] Making a request on behalf of a friend and not obtaining it, he fell down to his [Dionysius'] feet and won him over: "I am not responsible for this flattery," he said, "but Dionysius, who has ears in his knees."