Demonax (2nd C. CE.)

Demonax was a philosopher of the second century CE. who tried to
revive the philosophy of the Cynic School. Born in Cyprus, Demonax
went to Athens, where he became so popular that people vied with on
another in presenting him with food, and even the young children gave
him great quantities of fruit. Much less austere than Diogenes, whom
he took as his philosophic model, he nevertheless rebuked vice
unsparingly, and was charged with neglecting the Eleusinian Mysteries,
to which he replied: "If the mysteries are bad, no one should be
initiated; and if they are good, they ought to be open to everyone."
He was fried of Epictetus, who once rebuked him for not marrying, but
was silenced by Demonax, who said, "Very well; give me one of your
daughters for a wife" — Epictetus being himself a bachelor. Demonax
lived to be nearly a hundred, and on his death was buried with great
magnificence. See the Demonax of Lucian, in which the character of the
philosopher is painted in glowing colors.