MONIMUS.
a 1.1 MOnimus was a Syracusian, Disciple to Diogenes, he was first servant to a Mony-changer, to whom Xeniades who bought Diogenes, often coming, he was so taken with the worth and Ver∣tue of the person, that he counterfeited himself mad, and threw all the mony from off the Table, whereupon his Master turning him away, he betook himself to Diogenes. He followed likewise Crates the Cynick, and others of that Sect, which confirm'd his Master in the opinion that he was mad. He was a person eloquent and learned, mention'd by Menander in his Hippocomus, of so great constancy, that he contemned all glory for vertues sake. He wrote some things, which at first appearance seemed Ludicrous, but con∣tained deep serious sense; as of Appetites, two Books, and a Pro∣treptick.