Although most of the stories about him living in a jar are located in Athens, there are some accounts of him living in a jar near the Craneum gymnasium in Corinth:A report that Philip II of Macedon was marching on the town had thrown all Corinth into a bustle; one was furbishing his arms, another wheeling stones, a third patching the wall, a fourth strengthening a battlement, every one making himself useful somehow or other.
Na vprašanje o trgovanju je odgovoril, da ne pozna trgovanja, razen tega s strani vladajočih, ter da si želi biti prodan človeku, ki potrebuje gospodarja.