id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-sacred-texts-com-794 Works of Lucian, Vol. III: A Portrait-study .html text/html 3497 288 86 Homer shall add her smile, her white arms, her rosy finger-tips, and so complete the resemblance to golden Aphrodite, to whom 9he has compared Brises' daughter with far less reason. 12Ly. Why then, Polystratus, you shall give me story for story, good measure, shaken together, out of your abundance: paint me the portrait of her soul, that I may be no more her half-admirer. Next I have to depict Wisdom; and here I shall have occasion for many models, most of them ancient; one comes, like the lady herself, from Ionia. Such a work will be more enduring than those of Apelles and Parrhasius and Polygnotus; it will be far removed from creations of wood and wax and colour, being inspired by the Muses, in whom alone is that true portraiture that shows forth in one likeness a lovely body and a virtuous soul. ./cache/www-sacred-texts-com-794.html ./txt/www-sacred-texts-com-794.txt