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Menippus

What do you mean? I must go to Lebadea, swaddle myself up in absurd linen, take a cake in my hand, and crawl through a narrow passage into a cave, before I could tell that you are a dead man, with nothing but knavery to differentiate you from the rest of us? Now, on your seer-ship, what is a Hero? I am sure I don’t know.

Trophonius

He is half God, and half man,

Menippus

So what is neither man (as you imply) nor God, is both at once? Well, at present what has become of your diviner half?

Trophonius

He gives oracles in Boeotia.

Menippus

What you may mean is quite beyond me; the one thing I know for certain is that you are dead—the whole of you. 5

Hermes. Charon

Hermes

Ferryman, what do you say to settling up accounts? It will prevent any unpleasantness later on.

Charon

Very good. It does save trouble to get these things straight.

Hermes

One anchor, to your order, five shillings.

Charon

That is a lot of money.

Hermes

So help me Pluto, it is what I had to pay. One rowlock-strap, fourpence, 5

Charon

Five and four; put that down.

Hermes

Then there was a needle, for mending the sail; tenpence.

Charon

Down with it.

Hermes

Caulking-wax; nails; and cord for the brace. Two shillings the lot.

Charon

They were worth the money. 10

Hermes

That’s all; unless I have forgotten anything. When will you pay it?

Charon

I can’t just now, Hermes; we shall have a war or a plague presently, and then the passengers will come shoaling in, and I shall be able to make a little by jobbing the fares.

Hermes

So for the present I have nothing to do but sit down, and pray for the worst, as my only chance of getting paid?