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HERMES

No doubt, then, you try your luck with the nanny-goats?

PAN

A fine jest coming from you! My lady-friends are Echo and Pitys and all the Maenads of Dionysus, and I’m in great demand with them.

HERMES

Please do me a favour, son. I’ve never asked one from you before. 5

PAN

Tell me what you want, daddy, and let me see to it.

HERMES

You may come here and pay your respects to me, but please don’t call me daddy when anyone can hear.

Apollo and Dionysus

APOLLO

What can we make of it? Won’t we have to admit that Eros and Hermaphroditus and Priapus, though sons of the same mother, are utterly different in appearance and habits? Eros is really handsome, and an archer invested with great power, and lord of all. Hermaphroditus is an effeminate pansy, half one thing and half the other in appearance, for you can’t tell whether he’s boy or girl; whereas Priapus is quite indecently masculine.

DIONYSUS

There’s no need to be surprised, Apollo. It’s not Aphrodite’s fault, but the fathers were different. Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Priapus of Dionysus; Eros is nariously described as the son of Ares or Zeus or indeed Hermes; he is probably regarded by Lucian as the son of Ares rather than of Zeus. Why, even when the father’s the same, the one mother often has both boys and girls in her family. Take for example your sister and yourself.

APOLLO

Quite so, but we are alike and have the same interests. We’re both archers.