Trips to the Moon
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MENIPPUS.
You have often seen a crowd of ants running to and fro in and out oftheir city, some turning up a bit of dung, others dragging a bean-shell, or running away with half a grain of wheat. I make no doubtbut they have architects, demagogues, senators, musicians, andphilosophers amongst them. Men, my friend, are exactly like these:if you approve not of the comparison, recollect, if you please, theancient Thessalian fables, and you will find that the Myrmidons, {177} a most warlike nation, ...sprung originally from pismires.
When I had thus seen and diverted myself with everything, I shook mywings and flew off, "To join the sacred senate of the skies. " {178a} Scarce had I gone a furlong, when the Moon, in a soft female voice, cried out to me, "Menippus, will you carry something for me toJupiter, so may your journey be prosperous?" "With all my heart, "said I, "if it is nothing very heavy. " "Only a message, " repliedshe, "a small petition to him: my patience is absolutely worn outby the philosophers, who are perpetually disputing about me, who Iam, of what size, how it happens that I am sometimes round and full, at others cut in half; some say I am inhabited, others that I amonly a looking-glass hanging over the sea, and a hundred conjecturesof this kind; even my light, {178b} they say, is none of my own, butstolen from the Sun; thus endeavouring to set me and my brothertogether by the ears, not content with abusing him, and calling hima hot stone, and a mass of fire.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
MENIPPUS.
You have often seen a crowd of ants running to and fro in and out oftheir city, some turning up a bit of dung, others dragging a bean-shell, or running away with half a grain of wheat. I make no doubtbut they have architects, demagogues, senators, musicians, andphilosophers amongst them. Men, my friend, are exactly like these:if you approve not of the comparison, recollect, if you please, theancient Thessalian fables, and you will find that the Myrmidons, {177} a most warlike nation, ...sprung originally from pismires.
When I had thus seen and diverted myself with everything, I shook mywings and flew off, "To join the sacred senate of the skies. " {178a} Scarce had I gone a furlong, when the Moon, in a soft female voice, cried out to me, "Menippus, will you carry something for me toJupiter, so may your journey be prosperous?" "With all my heart, "said I, "if it is nothing very heavy. " "Only a message, " repliedshe, "a small petition to him: my patience is absolutely worn outby the philosophers, who are perpetually disputing about me, who Iam, of what size, how it happens that I am sometimes round and full, at others cut in half; some say I am inhabited, others that I amonly a looking-glass hanging over the sea, and a hundred conjecturesof this kind; even my light, {178b} they say, is none of my own, butstolen from the Sun; thus endeavouring to set me and my brothertogether by the ears, not content with abusing him, and calling hima hot stone, and a mass of fire.
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