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Menippus

Pluto! you are not going to lend your countenance to these whimpering fools?

Pluto

It isn’t that; but I won’t have you quarrelling.

Menippus

Well, you scum of your respective nations, let there be no misunderstanding: I am going on just the same. Wherever you are, there shall I be also; worrying, jeering, singing you down.

Croesus

Presumption!

Menippus

Not a bit of it. Yours was the presumption, when you expected men to fall down before you, when you trampled on men’s liberty, and forgot there was such a thing as death. Now comes the weeping and gnashing of teeth: for all is lost!

Croesus

Lost! Ah God! My treasure-heapp——

Midas

My gold—— 5

Sardanapalus

My little comforts——

Menippus

That’s right: stick to it! You do the whining, and I'll chime in with a string of cnotHi-saurons, best of accompaniments,

III

Menippus. Ampbilochus. Trophonius

Now I wonder how it is that you two dead men have been honoured with temples and taken for prophets; those silly mortals imagine you are Gods.

Ampbilochus

How can we help it, if they are fools enough to have such fancies about the dead?

Menippus

Ah, they would never have had them, though, if you had not been charlatans in your lifetime, and pretended to know the future and be able to foretell it to your clients.

Trophonius

Well, Menippus, Amphilochus can take his own line, if he likes; as for me, I am a Hero, and do give oracles to any one who comes down to me. It is pretty clear you were never at Lebadea, or you would not be so incredulous.