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"Κωμωδοδιδασκαλίαν εἲναι χαλεπώτατον ἔργον ἁρπάτων,
Πολλῶν γὰρ δὴ πειρασάντων αὑτὴν ὀλίγοις χαρίσασθαι."^[1]

Which I will venture to turn thus:

"Miss Comedy is a sad flirt,—you may guess
From the number who court her, the few she doth bless."

1. Aristophanes, "Equites," v. 516.