<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.tlg066.perseus-eng4" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng4" n="2"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng4:2" n="2"><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>Well, you scum of your respective nations, let there be no misunderstanding: I am going on just the same. Wherever <pb n="v.1.p.110"/> you are, there shall I be also; worrying, jeering, singing you down.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Croesus</speaker><p>Presumption!</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>Not a bit of it. Yours was the presumption, when you expected men to fall down before you, when you trampled on men’s liberty, and forgot there was such a thing as death. Now comes the weeping and gnashing of teeth: for all is lost!</p></sp><sp><speaker>Croesus</speaker><p>Lost! Ah God! My treasure-heapp——</p></sp><sp><speaker>Midas</speaker><p>My gold——</p></sp><sp><speaker>Sardanapalus</speaker><p>My little comforts——</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>That’s right: stick to it! You do the whining, and I'll chime in with a string of cnotHi-saurons, best of accompaniments, </p></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>