He went up into Athens and sat down in a bookseller's shop, becoming then a guy of 30. With great cause," quoth Zeno, "he appears to be like askance at the mud, for he are not able to see his encounter in it." When a sure Cynic declared he experienced no oil in his flask and begged some of him, Zeno refused to give him any. However, as the male went absent, Zeno bade him contemplate which of the two was the far more impudent.