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Her perfect intonation, her pure Ionic accent, her ready Attic eloquence, need not surprise you; these are her birthright; for is not Smyrna Athens daughter? And what more natural than that she should love poetry, and make it her chief study? Homer is her fellow citizenThere you have my first portrait; the portrait of a sweet-voiced songstress, though it fall far short of its original. And now for others. For I do not propose to make one of many, as you did. I aim higher: the complex picture of so many beauties wrought into one, however artful be the composition, cannot escape inconsistency: with me, each separate virtue of her soul shall sit for its own portrait.

Lycinus What a banquet awaits me! Here, assuredly, is good measure. Mete it out; I ask for nothing better.

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