When Craterus needed him to arrive and stop by him, "No," he replied, "I would rather stay on a couple grains of salt at Athens than take pleasure in sumptuous fare at Craterus's table." He went up to Anaximenes the rhetorician, who was body fat, and stated, "Let us beggars have a little something of your paunch it will be a reduction to you, and we shall get advantage.