Her hair dishevelled, long, and flowing loose
About her shoulders.
The reader cannot but sympathize with the remark of Clitipho, when he has heard this description of virtuous poverty,—“If all this is true, as I believe it is, you are the most fortunate of men.”
The degraded Bacchis also reads a valuable lesson to her sex, when she shows the blessings of the path of virtue from which she has strayed:—
Nam expedit bonas esse vobis: nos, quibuscum est res, non sinunt;
Quippe forma impulsi nostra, nos amatores colunt:
Hæc ubi immutata est, illi suum animum alio conferunt.
Nisi si prospectum interea aliquid est, desertæ vivimus.
Vobis cum uno semel ubi ætatem agere decretum ’st viro,
Cujus mos maxume ’st consimilis vostrum, hi se ad vos applicant.