Zeus Damis is running off laughing, deities,
and the other is chasing him with abuse, put out
past bearing by Damis's wealth of impertinence,
and apparently he is going to clip him in the head
with the tile. But what shall we do now? Hermes It seems to me the comic poet was
right when he said:

 Do not profess defeat and you will suffer none. 
For what great harm is it if a handful of men
go off persuaded to these views, seeing that there
are many who know to the contrary, the majority of the Greeks, a numerous race, and all the
barbarians? Zeus However, Hermes, that was a capital remark that Dareios made about Zopyrus. In the
same way I, too, would rather have one Damis for
my ally than rule ten thousand Babylons.