Dialogi mortuorum
Lucian of Samosata
The Works of Lucian of Samosata, complete, with exceptions specified in thepreface, Vol. 1. Fowler, H. W. and Fowlere, F.G., translators. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905.
Menippus Well, you had better take me back again to life.
Charon Yes, and get a thrashing from Aeacus for my pains! I like that.
Menippus Well, don’t bother me.
Charon Let me see what you have got in that wallet.
Menippus Beans: have some?—and a Hecate’s supper.
Charon Where did you pick up this Cynic, Hermes? The noise he made on the crossing, too! laughing and jeering at all the rest, and singing, when every one else was at his lamentations.
Hermes Ah, Charon, you little know your passenger! Independence, every inch of him: he cares for noone. 'Tis Menippus.
Charon Wait till I catch you——
Menippus Precisely; I'll wait—till you catch me again.