CYNISCUS
Even that is enough, if you yourself admit that sacrifices are not offered for any useful purpose, but by reason of the generosity of men, who honour what is superior. And yet, if one of your sophists were here, he would ask you wherein you allege the gods to be superior, when really they are fellow- slaves with men, and subject to the same mistresses, the Fates. For their immortality will not suffice to make them seem better, since that feature certainly is far worse, because men are set free by death at least, if by nothing else, while with you gods the thing goes on to infinity and your slavery is eternal, being controlled by a long thread.Something of acommonplace: see Pliny, Nat. Hist. 2, 27; Longinus de Subl. 9, 7.
ZEUS
But, Cyniscus, this eternity and infinity is blissful for us, and we live in complete happiness.
