...u, they had but to style you, the people crowned with violets, and at the word violets you at once sat erect on the tips of your bums. Or if, to tickle your vanity, someone spoke of rich and sleek Athens , in return for that sleekness he would get all, because he spoke of you as he would have of anchovies in oil. In cautioning you against such wiles, the poet has done you great service as well as i...