<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="25"><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>So Zeus is in error, and you do not enrich deserving pevsais according to his pleasure?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Plutus</speaker><p>My dear fellow, how can he expect it? He knows I am blind, and he sends me groping about for a thing so hard to detect, and so nearly extinct this long time, that a Lynceus would have his work cut out spying for its dubious remains: So you see, as the good are few, and cities are crowded with multitudes of the bad, I am much more likely to come upon me latter in my rambles, and they keep me in their nets.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>But when you are leaving them, how do you find escape so easy? you do not know the way.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Plutus</speaker><p>Ah, there is just one occasion which brings me quickass of eye and foot; and that is flight. <pb n="v.1.p.41"/> </p></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>