No female varnish to set off her beauty;
Her hair dishevelled, long, and flowing loose
About her shoulders.”
Chremes finds Bacchis a very expensive guest, and, announcing to Menedemus the next morning the return of his son, tries to put him on his guard against the extravagant tastes of Clinia’s supposed mistress, but without producing any effect on the father thus relieved of his anxiety:—
“Chremes.—First, she’s brought with her half a score of maids,
Tricked out, the jades, with gold and jewelry;
Why, if her lover were an Eastern prince,
He couldn’t stand it—how on earth can you?
Menedemus.—Oh! is she here, too?
Chremes.—Is she here, do you ask?