HERMES 
Then you have cheated Zeus, who thinks that you
observe his decrees and enrich those who in his
opinion deserve riches ?
 RICHES 
Yes, and very properly, my friend, for although he


 

knew that I was blind, he kept sending me to search
for a thing so hard to find, which long ago became
eclipsed in the world; even a Lynceus could not find
it easily, so dim and tiny is its light. So, as the
good men are few and wicked men in great numbers
fill the cities, it is easier for me to fall in with then
in my wanderings and to get into their nets.
 HERMES 
Then how is it that when you leave them you
escape easily, since you do not know the way ?
 RICHES 
For some reason I become sharp of eye and swift
of foot then, but only for the time of ny escape.