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Menippus

Dreams, dreams, I am looking at what you are; what you were is ancient history.

Nireus

Am I not handsomer here, Menippus?

Menippus

You are not handsome at all, nor any one else either. Hades is a democracy; one man is as good as another here. 5

Thersites

And a very tolerable arrangement too, if you ask me.

XXVI

Menippus. Chiron

Menippus

I have heard that you were a god, Chiron, and that you died of your own choice?

Chiron

You were rightly informed. I am dead, as you see, and might have been immortal.

Menippus

And what should possess you, to be in love with Death? He has no charm for most people.

Chiron

You are a sensible fellow; I will tell you. There was no further satisfaction to be had from immortality.

Menippus

Was it not a pleasure merely to live and see the light? 5

Chiron

No; it is variety, as I take it, and not monotony, that constitutes pleasure. Living on and on, everything always the same; sun, light, food, spring, summer, autumn, winter, one thing following another in unending sequence,—I sickened of it all. I found that enjoyment lay not in continual possession; that deprivation had its share therein.

Menippus

Very true, Chiron. And how have you got on since you made Hades your home?

Chiron

Not unpleasantly. I like the truly republican equality that prevails; and as to whether one is in light or darkness, that makes no difference at all, Then again there is no hunger or thirst here; one is independent of such things.

Menippus

Take care, Chiron! You may be caught in the snare of your own reasonings.

Chiron

How should that be?