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Dialogues of the Dead (18.1)

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Menippus

Where are all the beauties, Hermes? Show me round; I am a new-comer.

Hermes

I am busy, Menippus. But look over there to your right, and you will see Hyacinth, Narcissus, Nireus, Achilles, Tyro, Helen, Leda,—all the beauties of old.

Menippus

I can only see bones, and bare skulls; most of them are exactly alike.

Hermes

Those bones, of which you seem to think so lightly, have been the theme of admiring poets.

Menippus

Well, but show me Helen; I shall never be able to make her out by myself.

Hermes

This skull is Helen.

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