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Updated: May 9, 2025
Mowbray looked at her sadly, but with a smile. "There are very many honest gentlemen," he said. "Yes, but they do not love everybody," said Philippa; "and that for a very good reason." "What?" The young girl laughed. "Because they love themselves so much," she said. "Gallant Adonises! they think themselves handsome, nay, more lovely than all the maidens in the world!"
Then there are the beaux, the Adonises and Hyacinths, as you must be careful to call them, undeterred by the eighteen inches or so of nose that some of them carry on their faces. Do your praises halt? 'Tis envy, 'tis treason! Away with you, Philoxenus that you are, to Syracusan quarries! Let them be orators, let them be philosophers, if they will: what matter for a solecism here and there?
Cicero alludes to the then prevailing custom among the Romans of reclining at the table on couches covered with roses. Ah, my jeweled buddies, there were Adonises in those days! When Cleopatra, the perfumed serpent of the Nile, went into Cilicia to meet Mark Antony, she gave him for several days a festival such as the gods themselves would not blush to participate in.
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