XVI
SIC PASSIM
"For what qualities in a man," asked the youth, "does a woman most ardently love him?"
"For those qualities in him," replied the old tutor, "which his mother most ardently hates."
XVII
THE SEVERER SENTENCE
He had done a great wrong to a good woman, and the congress of the gods sat upon his punishment.
"Be it decreed by us," spoke the god at the far end of the table, "that he be compelled to walk, with the pace of a tortoise, through Hell."