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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, solut.s 

 Crinibus, ambiguoque vultu." 



HOR. ODES. II. Od. 5 21, p. 131, orig. edit.* 



* " Nor the Cnidian fair and ycung, 

 Who the virgin qiure among, 

 Might deceive, in female guise, 

 Stranger-guests, th ,ugh wondrous wise ; 

 With the difference between 

 Sexes hardly to be seen, 

 With his hair of flowing grace 

 And his boyish, girlish face." REV. PHIL. FRANCIS. 



There are somewhat similar passages in various Latin authors, viz., 



" Beneath whose virgin locks, while flowing tears 

 Bedew his cheek, a doubtful face appears." JUVEN. 



" Of either sex,~each various grace 

 You might beh jld with joy, 

 As well might seem the lovely face 

 Boyish in girl, or girlish in a boy." OVID. 



"While nature doubtful stands 

 A male or female to compose, 

 Beneath her forming hands 

 Almost a girl, the beauteous boy arose." AUSON. 



