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Though a disciple of Socrates, he wandered very far both in principle and practice from the teaching and example of his great master.

He lived luxuriously, was happy to seek sensual gratification and the company of the notorious Lais.

He also took money for his teaching, the first of Socrates ' disciples to do so and even told Socrates that he resided in a foreign land in order to escape the trouble of involving himself in the politics of his native city.

He passed part of his life at the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse or Dionysius the Younger, and is also said to have been taken prisoner by Artaphernes, the satrap who drove the Spartans from Rhodes, 396 BCE.

He appears, however, at last to have returned to Cyrene, and there he spent his old age.