Meeting Voconius with three daughters who had very ugly faces, he said softly to his friends,
Phoebus forbade when he his children got.1
Meeting Voconius with three daughters who had very ugly faces, he said softly to his friends,
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Cicero, chap. xxvii. (874 D). The verse may possibly be from the Oedipus of Euripides. Cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag., adespota, no. 378.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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