“AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each ply

 

his own trade; that Athena shall not heal the
sick or Asclepius give oracles or Apollo combine in
himself so many activities; he shall select one and
be either seer or singer or physician;
 
that the
philosophers be warned not to make up empty names
or talk nonsense about matters of which they know
nothing;
 
that in the case of those who already have
been vouchsafed temples or sacrifices, their images be
pulled down and those of Zeus or Hera or Apollo or
one of the others be substituted; but the city shall
raise a funeral-mound for them and set a gravestone
upon it instead of an altar; that if anyone shall fail
to comply with this proclamation and shall be unwilling to appear before the deputies, judgement by
default shall be rendered against him.”
There you have the resolution.
 ZEUS 
It is most equitable, Momus ; so let everyone who is
in favour of the resolution hold up his hand—but
no! I declare it carried, as those who will not vote
for it will be the majority, I know. Well, you may
go now; but when Hermes makes the proclamation,
present yourselves, and let each of you bring unmistakable means of identification and clear proofs—
his father’s name and his mother’s, why and how he
became a god, and his tribe and clan. For if anyone
shall fail to put all this in evidence, it will make no
difference to the deputies that he has a huge temple
on earth and that men believe him to be a god.