Can never aspire to the buss of a brute.”
(ii. 33.)
And again:
“Why on my chin a plaster clapped?
Besalved my lips that are not chapped?
Philænis, why? The cause is this:
Philænis, thee I will not kiss.”
(x. 22).
The illustrious Postumus comes in for a share of repugnance in this delicate fashion. We give the literal translation: