Dionysius Stops A Would-Be Thief

Humor was not lost on Dionysius II, king of Syracuse and student of Plato (also later the tyrant of Locri) >A man who thought himself witty, once tried to make a joke of Dionysius by shaking out his cloak when he came into his presence, as is custom in front of despots, to show one has no concealed weapons; but he repaid the jest by begging him to do it when he left him, that he might be sure that he had not stolen any of his property Plutarch's Lives: Life of Timoleon: Section XV