Her voice was low and musical; that of a cultured woman.

to cover them with ridicule and to chase them from the stage; he has

also dismissed that slave, whom one never failed to set weeping before

you, so that his comrade might have the chance of jeering at his

stripes and might ask, "Wretch, what has happened to your hide? Has

the lash rained an army of its thongs on you and laid your back

waste?" After having delivered us from all these wearisome ineptitudes

and these low buffooneries, he has built up for us a great art, like a

palace with high towers, constructed of fine phrases, great thoughts

Great!（577）