"When some one inquired which were more in number, the living or the dead, [Anacharsis] rejoined, 'In which category, then, do you place those who are on the seas?'"

     Diogenes Laertius, Lives of eminent philosophers I.8 (Anacharsis).103-105, trans., R. D. Hicks, Loeb classical library, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1959), 109.  Jan Fredrik Kindstrand, Anacharsis:  the Legend and the Apophthegmata, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis:  Studia Graeca Upsaliensis 16 (Stockholm:  Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1981), 145 (A33) on 116 (A33A-D):  "This apophthegma is also attributed to Dio of Prusa (Gnom. Bas. p. 177 and cod. Pal. Gr. 122 f. 157r) and in a very similar form to Bias (Ps-Plato Axiochus 368 B and Stobaeus Flor. 4.34.75).  Moreover the same question recurs in a dialogue between Alexander the Great and a Gymnosophist, although the answer is different . . . (Plutarch Alexander 64.2; more cases will be found in Sternbach's note on Gnom. Vat. 130)."
     Image:  Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri x, vol. 1, ed. M. Meibom (Amsterdam:  apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1692), 64.