<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="3"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg066.perseus-eng4:3" n="2"><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>What do you mean? I must go to Lebadea, swaddle myself up in absurd linen, take a cake in my hand, and crawl through a narrow passage into a cave, before I could tell that you are a dead man, with nothing but knavery to differentiate <pb n="v.1.p.111"/> you from the rest of us? Now, on your seer-ship, what is a Hero? I am sure I don’t know.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Trophonius</speaker><p>He is half God, and half man,</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>So what is neither man (as you imply) nor God, is both at once? Well, at present what has become of your diviner half?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Trophonius</speaker><p>He gives oracles in Boeotia.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Menippus</speaker><p>What you may mean is quite beyond me; the one thing I know for certain is that you are dead—the whole of you. </p></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>