Crates. Till hee thinke it better to die than to live.
Alex. Anaxarchus, whether doth the sea or the earth bring forth most creatures?
Anax. The earth, for the sea is but a part of the earth.
Alex. Hephestion, me thinkes they have answered all well, and 100 in such questions I meane often to trie them.
Hep. It is better to have in your court a wise man than in your ground a golden mine. Therefore would I leave war, to study wisdom, were I Alexander.
Alex. So would I, were I Hephestion.[825] But come, let us goe 105 and give release, as I promised, to our Theban thralls.[826]
Exeunt [Alexander, Hephestion, Parmenio, and Clytus.]
Plato. Thou art fortunate, Aristotle, that Alexander is thy scholler.
Aris. And all you happy that he is your soveraigne.
Crisip. I could like the man well, if he could be contented to 110 bee but a man.