B. Oh, how beautiful!
A. They are, indeed, since hither they but lately
Have come from the great king.
B. By Phosphoros!
I could have thought them from the Hesperian bowers,
Where th' apples are of gold.
A. There are but three.
B. The beautiful is nowhere plentiful. —J. A. St. John.
Aristophanes. (Book iii. § 33, p. 145.)