But worth with beauty e'en in aspect vies.
? Felton.
Galen, the physician, writing about 160 A.D., says: 'It is better therefore, knowing that the beauty of youth is like Spring flowers, its pleasure lasting but a little while, to approve of what the Lesbian [here] says, and to believe Solon when he points out the same.'
102
Ἦρ' ἔτι παρθενίας ἐπιβάλλομαι;
Do I still long for maidenhood?
Quoted by Apollonius, and by the Scholiast on Dionysius of Thrace, to illustrate the interrogative particle ἆρα, Aeolic ἦρα, and as an example of the catalectic iambic.
103
Χαίροισα νύμφα, χαιρέτω δ' ὀ γάμβρος.
The bride [comes] rejoicing; let the bridegroom rejoice.