<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg022.perseus-eng4" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg022.perseus-eng4:" n="24"><sp rend="merge"><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>But when you go on your own feet, how can a blind man like you find the way? Zeus sends you to people who he thinks deserve riches; but how do you distinguish them?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Plutus</speaker><p>Do you suppose I do find them? not much. I should scarcely have passed Aristides by, and gone to Hipponicus, Callias, and any number of other Athenians whose merits could have been valued in copper.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>Well, but what do you do when he sends you?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Plutus</speaker><p>I just wander up and down till I come across some one; the first comer takes me off home with him, and thanks—whom but the God of windfalls, yourself? </p></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>