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TIMOCLES

And the administration of the universe is not directed by any god? 5

DAMIS

No.

TIMOCLES

And everything drifts at random?

DAMIS

Yes.

TIMOCLES

Men, do you hear that and put up with it? Aren’t you going to stone the villain?

DAMIS

Why do you embitter men against me, Timocles? And who are you to get angry on behalf of the gods, especially when they themselves are not angry? They have done me no harm, you see, though they have listened to me long—if indeed they have ears. 10

TIMOCLES

Yes, they have, Damis, they have, and they will punish you some day in the hereafter.

DAMIS

And when can they find time for me, when they have so many cares, you say, and manage all creation, which is unlimited in its extent? That is why they have not yet paid.you back for all your false oaths and everything else—I don’t want to be forced to deal in abuse like you, contrary to our stipulations: and yet I don’t see what better manifestation of their providence they could have made than to crush your life out miserably, miserable sinner that you are! But it is clear that they are away from home, across the Ocean, no doubt, visiting the guileless Ethiopians.Iliad, 1, 423. At any rate it is their custom to go and dine with them continually, even self-invited at times.

TIMOCLES

What can I say in reply to all this impudence, Damis?

DAMIS

Tell me what I wanted you to tell me long ago, how you were induced to believe that the gods exercise providence.