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www-sacred-texts-com-8998		Works of Lucian, Vol. III: Defence of the 'Portrait-Study'			.html	text/html	4212	239	80	Which the poet seeing, and realizing her appetite for praise, recited the lines again and again, till at last one of the company whispered in his ear, 'Stop, my good man; you will be making her get up.' I fear that to accept a panegyric like this would be to make a Cassiopeia of myself; though indeed she only challenged the Nereids, and stopped short of Hera and Aphrodite. [paragraph continues] Golden Aphrodite a barbarian woman, and her in tears, while I, lest I should describe the beauty that you like not to hear of, am forbidden to compare certain images to a lady who is ever bright and smiling--that beauty which mortals share with Gods? But he does not even limit himself to comparing the whole26 man to a God; Euphorbus's mere hair is called like the Graces--when it is dabbled with blood, too.	./cache/www-sacred-texts-com-8998.html	./txt/www-sacred-texts-com-8998.txt