Menippos the Cynic reached such a peak of audacity in wonder-working as to assume the guise of a Fury, saying that he had come from the underworld as an inspector of sins and, after descending again, would report them to the spirits there. This was his attire: a gray tunic reaching to the feet, with a crimson girdle round it, and an Ardican[1] cap on his head which had the 12 signs [of the zodiac] woven into it; footwear appropriate to a tragedy; an enormous beard; an ashen staff in his hand.