em all at last."

When fair [4869]Hero came abroad, the eyes, hearts, and affections of her
spectators were still attendant on her.

[4870] "Et medios inter vultus supereminet omnes,
Perque urbem aspiciunt venientem numinis instar."

[4871] "So far above the rest fair Hero shined.
And stole away the enchanted gazer's mind."

[4872]When Peter Aretine's Lucretia came first to Rome, and that the fame
of her beauty, _ad urbanarum deliciarum sectatores venerat, nemo non ad
videndam eam_, &c. was spread abroad, they came in (as they say) thick and
threefold to see her, and hovered about her gates, as they did of old to
Lais of Corinth, and Phryne of Thebes, [4873]_Ad cujus jacuit Graecia tota
fores_, "at whose gates lay all Greece." [4874]"Every man sought to get her
love, some with gallant and costly apparel, some with an affected pace,
some with music, others with rich gifts, pleasant discourse, multitude of
followers; others with letters, vows, and promises, to commend themselves,
and to be gracious in her eyes." Happy was he that could see her, thrice
happy that enjoyed her company. Charmides [4875]in Plato was a proper young
man in comeliness of person, "and all good qualities, far exceeding others;
whensoever fair Charmides came abroad, they seemed all to be in love with
him" (as Critias describes their carriage), "and were troubled at the very
sight of him; many came near him, many followed him wheresoever he went,"
as those [4876]_formarum spectatores_ did Acontius, if at any time he
walked abroad: the Athenian lasses stared on Alcibiades; Sappho and the
Mitilenean women on Phaon the fair. Such lovely sights do not only please,
entice, but ravish and amaze. Cleonimus, a delicate and tender youth,
present at a feast which Androcles his uncle made in Piraeo at Athens, when
he sacrificed to Mercury, so stupefied the guests, Dineas, Aristippus,
Agasthenes, and the rest (as Charidemus in [4877]Lucian relates it), that
they could not eat their meat, they sat all supper time gazing, glancing at
him, stealing looks, and admiring of his beauty. Many will condemn these
men that are so enamoured, for fools; but some again commend them for it;
many reject Paris's judgment, and yet Lucian approves of it, admiring Paris
for his choice; he would have done as much himself, and by good desert in
his mind: beauty is to be preferred [4878]"before wealth or wisdom."
[4879]Athenaeus _Deipnosophist, lib. 13. cap. 7_, hold