Kolossos I imagine that no one will venture to
vie with me, for I am Helios, and as you see for



 


size. For if the Rhodians had not seen fit to
make me abnormally large they could have made
sixteen golden gods for the same money. So I
ought to be considered proportionately rich. And
I exhibit art, too, and accurate workmanship, in
spite of my great stature. Hermes What is to be done, Zeus? This case,
too, is certainly a hard one to decide, for if I regard his material, he is bronze; but if I compute
how much money it cost to forge him, he ranks
above the highest class. Zeus Why need he be here, anyhow, to comment on the smallness of other people and give
trouble about his seat?


However, O mightiest of the Rhodians, even
you take rank never so much above the golden
gods, how could you take your seat before them
unless you ask them all to get up? If you were
to sit down you would fill the whole Pnyx. So
you would do better to stand during the meeting
and bend over the assembly. Hermes Here is another nice point to decide
between Dionysos here and Herakles. Both are
bronze; their workmanship is the same, for both
are by Lysippos; and, most vital point of all, they
are equals by birth, being alike sons of Zeus.
Which of them is to have precedence? They
are wrangling about it, as you see. Zeus We are wasting time, Hermes. We should


 



have got to business long ago. Let them sit down
now anyhow, each where he likes. By-and-by we
will hold an assembly to debate these questions,
and then I shall know how their ranks ought to
be assigned.