<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.tlg024.perseus-eng5" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg024.perseus-eng5:" n="2"><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>Which of them shall we put up first?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Zeus</speaker><p>This one with the long hair, the Ionian, for he seems to be a reverend person.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>Let the Pythagorean there show his points to the company.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Zeus</speaker><p>Announce him, pray.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>I offer the noblest life, the most reverend. Who will buy? Who wishes to be more <pb n="p.60"/> than human, to know the harmony of the all, and rise from the dead?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>He is not bad to look at, but just what does he know?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>Arithmetic, astronomy, magic, geometry, music, jugglery. A finished fortune-teller is before you.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>May one question him?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Hermes</speaker><p>With all my heart.</p></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>