One might surely have clearly heard Pan piping, so did the sculptor mingle breath with the form; but in despair at the sight of flying, unstaying Echo, he renounced the pipe's unavailing sound.
XXXIX ON A STATUE OF THE ARMED VENUS AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Pallas said, seeing Cytherea armed, "O Cyprian, wilt thou that we go so to judgment?" and she, laughing softly, "why should I lift a shield in contest? if I conquer when naked, how will it be when I take arms?"
XL ON THE CNIDIAN VENUS OF PRAXITELES AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The Cyprian said when she saw the Cyprian of Cnidus, "Alas where did
Praxiteles see me naked?"
XLI ON A SLEEPING ARIADNE AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Strangers, touch not the marble Ariadne, lest she even start up on the quest of Theseus.
XLII ON A NIOBE BY PRAXITELES AUTHOR UNKNOWN
From life the gods made me a stone; and from stone again Praxiteles wrought me into life.