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.