HERMES 
But how smooth and slippery you are, Riches,
how hard to hold and how quick to get away! You
offer people no secure grip at all, but make your
escape through their fingers in some way or other,
like an eel or a snake. Poverty, on the other hand,
is sticky and easy to grip, and has no end of hooks
growing out all over her body, so that when people
come near her she lays hold of them at once and
cannot be disengaged easily. But in the midst of
our gossip we have forgotten something rather
important.
 RICHES 
What is it?
 HERMES 
We have not brought along Treasure, whom we
needed most.