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LYCINUS So be it, Polystratus. She deserves it, because it is not in body alone, like Helen, that she is fair, but the soul that she harbours therein is still more fair and lovely. It was in keeping, too, that our Emperor, kindly and gentle as he is, along with all the other blessings that he enjoys, should be so

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tavoured by Fortune as to have such a woman born in his time and consort with him and love him. For that is no trivial favour of Fortunea woman about whom one can quote with propriety the saying of Homer, that she vies with golden Aphrodite in beauty and equals Athena herself in accomplishments.[*] Among mortal women there is none to compare with her, neither in stature nor mould (as Homer says), nor in mind nor in aught that she doeth.”[*]

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