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“Do you hold, then, that beauty is to be found only in man, or is it also in other objects?”Crit. “In faith, my opinion is that beauty is to be found quite as well in a horse or an ox or in any number of inanimate things. I know, at any rate, that a shield may be beautiful, or a sword, or a spear.”
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