While you are smooth-faced, white-skinned, closely shaven,
Voiced like a woman, tender, fair to see.
[82] This is strongly expressed in an untranslatable speech of Mnesilochus (Ar. Thesmoph. 130 et seq.), which reminds one of the first satire of Persius:
Cum carmina lumbum
Intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ut intima versu.
[83] Poet. cap. 18.
[84] Ibid. cap. 9.
[85] Ibid. cap. 18.
For from this one thing God himself is barred—
To make what's done as though it ne'er had been.