THE PHILOSOPHERS IN HADES.
The Poet Speaks.
Good that I meet you together,
my friends; the thing that is needful
Made me descend to this place.
Here I can question you all.
Philosophen.
Gut, dass ich euch, ihr Herren,
in pleno
beisammen hier finde,
Denn das Eine, was noth,
treibt mich herunter zu euch.