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For how could anyone overdo the verbal
description of your appearance, since not even works of art executed by the
skill of the best masters could do more than justice to it? Nor is this
astonishing; for works of art have a motionless aspect, so that it is uncertain
what they would look like if they possessed life, but your personality enhances
in your every action the superb comeliness of your body. Only this much,
therefore, I have to say in praise of your beauty, omitting a great deal.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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