Taurus, in aversos praeceps cum tollitur artus, Sexta parte sui certantes luce sorores Pleiades ducit: quibus aspirantibus, almam In lucem eduntur Bacchi Venerisque sequaces: Perque dapes, mensamque super petulantia corda, Et sale mordaci dulces quaerentia risus. Illis cura sui cultus, frontisque decorae Semper erit: tortos in fluctum ponere crines, Aut vinclis revocare comas et vertice denso Fingere et appositis caput emutare capillis, Pomicibusque cavis horrentia membra polire, Atque odisse virum, sterilesque optare lacertos. Femineae vestes; nec in usum tegmina plantis, Sed speciem; fractique placent ad mollia gressus. Naturae pudet atque habitat sub pectore caeca Ambitio et _morbum_ virtutis nomine iactant. Semper amare parum est: cupient et amare videri (When the Bull tending downwards lifts his head with limbs bent back, he brings with him in his sixth house the sister Pleiades, his equals in brilliancy. When these are in the ascendent, there are brought forth to the light of day such as follow after Bacchus and Venus; and hearts that wanton at feast and board, and that seek to raise the merry laugh by biting wit. These will ever be giving thought to their bedizenment and becoming appearance; to curl the hair and lay it in waving ripples or else to gather in the locks with circlets and arrange them in a heavy top-knot, and to alter the head by adding false ringlets; to polish the shaggy limbs with hollow pumice-stone; yea! and to hate the very sight of a man, and long for arms without growth of hair. Women’s robes they wear; the coverings of their feet are less for use than show; and steps broken in to an effeminate gait are their delight. Nature they scorn; indeed in their breast there lies a pride they cannot avow, and they vaunt their disease (vice) under the name of virtue. Ever to love is a little thing in their eyes; their wish will be to be seen to love). _Seneca_, Quaest. nat. bk. VII. ch. 31., Egenus etiam in quo _morbum suum_ exerceat, legit. (The poor man too chooses one on whom he may practise his disease (vice).—_Seneca_, Epist. 114. Cum vero magis vires _morbus_ exedit et in medullas nervosque descendere deliciae. (But when the disease (vice) has eaten deeper into a man’s vigour, and its delights penetrated to the very marrow and nerves).—Comp. Epist. 75.—_Cicero_, De finibus I. 18., in Verrem II. 1. 36., Tusc. quaest. IV. 11.—_Wyttenbach_, in Bibliothec. critic. Pt VIII. p. 73.—_Horace_, Sat. I. 6. 40., Ut si qui aegrotat quo _morbo_ Barrus, haberi ut cupiat formosus. (As if one who is sick of the same _disease_ as Barrus, as if he should long to be considered handsome.) Another passage of the same author (Odes I. 37. 9.) must be mentioned: Contaminato cum grege turpium _Morbo_ virorum.