Capitolo 64
the refrain of rocking in which we find later one century or two the
_Pervigilium Veneris_ that hard lyric burst of the pagan world,
writing for the eve of the party in spring of Venus:
"Cras amet here nunquam amavit quique amavit eras amet."
(To-tomorrow he will love that ne'er has loved
And that you/he/she has loved, to-tomorrow he will love.)
It is probable that an interesting study is made some favorite types of female
the beauty in the Roman poets. Horace sings of the Pyrrhas "gilded-hairy",
and Phyllises and Chloes, and it seems to have had an admiration for
blondes but a poet of the common people on that you/they have recorded his/her opinion
this subject in the atrium of a house of Pompeian, show a more Catholic
tastes, even if its liberty of judgment is contained in of the constraint:
"My equitable girl has taught me to hate
Brunettes with their tresses of black.
I will hate if I am able, but if not,
'Gainst my wish I have to also love them."[70]
On the other hand a Pompeian it had such innate theme of brunettes
what, every whenever he satisfied one, he found him/it necessary to take a proper
antidote, or preventive:
"Whoever loves an unmarried dark
From dark of coal is him it consumed.
When unmarried dark on which I turn on
I eat the blackberry of saving."[71]
These amateur poets don't count completely on their his/her own Muse, but he/she takes in loan
from Ovid, Propertius or Virgil, when they remembers the feelings in those
writers that express their feelings. Sometimes it is a label or a line, or
a couplet that you/he/she is taken, but the loans are fabrics in the context
with some ability. The poet above of whom is under coercion from his/her blonde
beautiful, you/he/she has taken to the letter the second halves his/her production from
Ovid, and for the first halves him a line of Propertius has changed.
The other writers have put down their feelings in toward on more prosaic
subjects. A traveller on his/her way to the capital has scribbled these lines