"So on he drifted for two nights and days O’er the high swell, and oft his heart forbode The end; but when the fair-ha…"

"Now how great must that immortality be thought which is attained even by harlots! Flora, having obtained great wealth…"

"There is scent of the speech of the Sabines about the altars also, which by the vow of King Tatius were dedicated at …"

"A rakish stage fits Flora well; she is not, believe me she is not, to be counted among your buskined goddesses. ... S…"

"Why need I tell of the purple wraps and the wrestling-oils used by women? Who has not seen one of them smiting a stum…"

"So you may give up all the performances of Flora, of Ceres, and of Cybele; so much finer are the games of human life."

"I who now am called Flora was formerly Chloris: a Greek letter of my name is corrupted in the Latin speech. Chloris I…"

"About the same time he dedicated some temples of the gods, which had perished from age or from fire, and which August…"

"Perhaps you may think that I am queen only of dainty garlands; but my divinity has to do also with the tilled fields.…"

"And that white-robed wheedler there, dragged open-mouthed by his thirst for office—is he his own master? Up with you …"