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stronger features are usually characteristic of the male sex : but this 

 sexual diversity does not take place in earlier life ; for a beautiful 

 youth shall be so like a beautiful girl that the difference shall not be 

 discernible : 



" Quern si puellarum insereres choro, 

 Mire sagaces falleret hospites 

 Discrimen obscurum, solutis 

 Crinibus, ambiguoque vu/tu." 



HOR. 



