X: Fair Game 



"She drew herself up and looked him from top to toe." 



SO Dido at -^neas, according to Virgil who 

 was a great stickler for the dignity of sex. 

 Over goddesses, of course, he could not exert 

 control. No use to struggle with a younger 

 generation that was endowed perpetually with 

 youth. They were, he admitted, buccaneers in 

 coiui;ship. Let a personable youth go. strolling 

 imattended, let him dispose himself to rest upon 

 a hillside, and some one of them would be sure 

 to take pity on him pitilessly in a way to compro- 



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