"Songs are praised, but its gifts they really want: barbarians themselves are pleasing, so long as they’re rich. Truly now it is the Age of Gold: the greatest honours come with gold: love’s won by gold. Even if you came, Homer, with the Muses as companions, if you brought nothing with you, Homer, you’d be out. Still there are cultured girls, the rarest set: and another set who aren’t, but would like to be..."
"Songs are praised, but its gifts they really want:
ReplyDeletebarbarians themselves are pleasing, so long as they’re rich.
Truly now it is the Age of Gold: the greatest honours
come with gold: love’s won by gold.
Even if you came, Homer, with the Muses as companions,
if you brought nothing with you, Homer, you’d be out.
Still there are cultured girls, the rarest set:
and another set who aren’t, but would like to be..."