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I know not what passes in the sacred courts; but here below Neamede, Phila, Lais, Gnathene, the witty Phryne, the despair of the pencil of Apelles, and the chisel of Praxiteles, Leëna, beloved of Harmodias, the two sisters named Aphyes, because they were small and had large eyes, Dorica, the fillet of whose locks and embalmed robe were consecrated in the temple of Venus, all these enchantresses knew only the perfumes of Arabia.
All these things ought to be done merely by the way: the formation of the spirit and character must be our real concern." The euphyes+ is the man who tends towards sweetness and light; the aphyes+ is precisely our Philistine. The immense spiritual significance of the Greeks is due to their having been inspired with this central and happy idea of the essential character of human perfection; and Mr.
22. +aphuia. 22. +aphuia, euphuia. See notes below for these words separately, page 23. 23. +euphyes. Liddell and Scott definition: "well-grown, shapely, goodly: graceful. II. of good natural parts: clever, witty; also 'of good disposition." 23. +aphyes. Liddell and Scott definition: "without natural talent, dull." GIF image: 31. +publice egestas, privatim opulentia.
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