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We have Homer, the best of all painters, éven in the presence of Euphranor and Apelles. Let her be throughout of a colour like that which Homer gave to the thighs of Menelaus when he likened them to ivory tinged with crimson;[*] and let him also paint the eyes and make her ox-eyed.” The Theban poet, too, shall lend him a hand in the work, to give her violet brows.”[*] Yes, and Homer shall make her laughter-loving and white-armed" and rosy-fingered,” and, in a word, shall liken her to golden Aphrodite far more fittingly than he did the daughter of Briseus.[*]

v.4.p.273

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