<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng3" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng3" n="30"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng3:30" n="2"><sp><speaker>MENIPPUS</speaker><p>But not, methinks, the handsomest that has come to the lower world; your bones are no different here, and your skull can only be told from that of Thersites, by its brittleness. Your skull is fragile and unmanly.</p></sp><sp><speaker>NIREUS</speaker><p>But just ask Homer what I was like when I was fighting in the Greek army.</p></sp><sp><speaker>MENIPPUS</speaker><p>You talk of dreams; I of what I see, and of your present state; your past is only known to the men of that time.</p></sp><sp><speaker>NIREUS</speaker><p>Then, Menippus, I’m not handsomer here than he is?</p></sp><pb n="v.7.p.175"/><sp><speaker>MENIPPUS</speaker><p>Neither you nor anyone else is handsome here. In Hades all are equal, and all alike.</p></sp><sp><speaker>THERSITES</speaker><p>That’s good enough for <hi rend="italic">me</hi>.</p></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>