Note 123 — SECOND DISCOURSE
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
P. 236:
◆These are taken from an old French book entitled: De la louange et beauté des Dames (“Of the Praise and Beauty of Ladies”). François Corniger has put the same into 18 Latin lines. Vencentio Calmeta has rendered them also into Italian verse, commencing with the words: Dolce Flaminia.
◆Pliny speaks of this Helen of Zeuxis.