Note 12 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos
Reading edition
“For this is the inconstancy of man in his [various] ages: green in his childhood; fiery in the age of his virility; white in old age; and bald in his decrepitude.” But his greatest change is in his customs, for he is a continual Proteus, and an inconstant Vertumnus.12 Thus does Martial paint his friend: