- RUFINUS.
- Book V., Epigram 15.
Where is Praxiteles? and where, oh! where
The hand of Polycleitos who could give
Such grace to marble as should make it live?
Who now shall carve Melite's lovely hair,
Her glowing eyes, her neck so dazzling fair?
Gone are the artists, gone the sculptors now
Such beauty with fit temple to endow,
As if an image of the gods it were.
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