<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="20"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng4:20" n="3"><sp><speaker>Aeacus</speaker><p>Would you like to see the philosophers?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>I should like it of all things.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Aeacus</speaker><p>First comes Pythagoras.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>Good-day, Euphorbus, alias Apollo, alias what you will.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Good-day, Menippus.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>What, no golden thigh nowadays?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Why, no. I wonder if there is anything to eat in that wallet of yours?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>Beans, friend; you don’t like beans,</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Try me. My principles have changed with my quarters. I find that down here our parents’ heads are in no way connected with beans. </p></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>