cording to Pseudo-Ovidius it moves in an oblique direction.
Note 95.Page 338.
Among many other matters in dispraise of the fair sex, which are found in this application, (and which I should blush to translate!) the writer observes after Seneca, "Quòd mulieres quæ malam faciem habent, leves et impudicæ sunt." But this is a Platonic tenet. Again, "Quidius," (or Ovidius) very learnedly remarks, "Casta est quam nemo rogavit." This is no doubt the original of a song in Congreve's "Love for Love."
"A nymph and a swain to Apollo once prayed;
The swain had been jilted, the nymph been betrayed:
Their intent was to try, if his oracle knew,
E'er a nymph that was chaste, or a swain that was true.
"Apollo was mute, and had like to've been posed,
But sagely at length he this secret disclosed:
He alone won't betray in whom none will confide;
And the nymph may be chaste, that has never been tried."
