TO CHLORIS.

You wife of the indigent Ibycus, at length put an end to your

wickedness, and your infamous practices. Cease to sport among the

damsels, and to diffuse a cloud among bright constellations, now on the

verge of a timely death. If any thing will become Pholoe, it does not

you Chloris, likewise. Your daughter with more propriety attacks the

young men's apartments, like a Bacchanalian roused up by the rattling

timbrel. The love of Nothus makes her frisk about like a wanton

she-goat. The wool shorn near the famous Luceria becomes you now

antiquated: not musical instruments, or the damask flower of the rose,

or hogsheads drunk down to the lees.

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