I want neither skeleton nor sophist to teach me that lesson.
More wine, I pray you, and less wisdom.

If you must believe something which you never can know, why not be contented with the long stories about the other world which are told us when we are initiated at the Eleusinian mysteries?
(The scene which follows is founded upon history.
Thucydides tells us, in his sixth book, that about this time Alcibiades was suspected of having assisted at a mock celebration of these famous mysteries.

It was the opinion of the vulgar among the Athenians that extraordinary privileges were granted in the other world to alt who had been initiated.) CHARICLEA.

And what are those stories?
ALCIBIADES.

Are not you initiated, Chariclea?
CHARICLEA.