Note 439 — Chapter VI · RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE (Continued)
George Herbert Ely translation
“Nec formæ contenta suæ, splendore decorem Auget mille modis mulier; frontem ligat auro, Purpurat arte genas et collocat arte capillos, Arte regit gressus, et lumina temperat arte. Currit ut in latebras ludens perducat amantem.” (Egloga, 4.)
[Not content with her natural beauty, woman enhances the brilliance of her charms in a thousand ways. She binds her brow with gold, artfully colours her cheeks and knots her hair and rules her gait and manages her eyes. She runs that sportive she may lure her lover into her secret nook.]