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Menippus

Why, if the monotony of the other world brought on satiety, the monotony here may do the same. You will have to look about for a further change, and I fancy there is no third life procurable.

Chiron

Then what is to be done, Menippus? 5

Menippus

Take things as you find them, I suppose, like a sensible fellow, and make the best of everything.

XXVII

Diogenes. Antisthenes. Crates. Pauper

Diogenes

Now, friends, we have plenty of time; what say you to a stroll? we might go to the entrance and have a look at the new-comers—what they are and how they behave.

Antisthenes

The very thing. It will be an amusing sight—some weeping, some imploring to be let go, some resisting; when Hermes collars them, they will stick their heels in and throw their weight back; and all to no purpose.

Crato

Very well; and meanwhile, let me give you my experiences on the way down.

Diogenes

Yes, go on, Crates; I dare say you saw some entertaining sights.

Crato

We were a large party, of which the most distinguished were Ismenodorus, a rich townsman of ours, Arsaces, ruler of Media, and Oroetes the Armenian. Ismenodorus had been murdered by robbers going to Eleusis over Cithaeron, I believe. He was moaning, nursing his wound, apostrophizing the young children he had left, and cursing his foolhardiness. He knew Cithaeron and the Eleutherae district were all devastated by the wars, and yet he must take only two servants with him— with five bowls and four cups of solid gold in his baggage, too.