Pashley, Robert: Travels in Crete (Band 1) (Cambridge und London, 1837)

XV.]

LOVE-SONGS.

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Bear witness brightly shining Moon,

And Haghio Kostandi!
Beauties like thine 'neath the expanse

Of Heaven I ne'er did see12.

I heard thy beauty's far-spread fame,
And came its truth to prove;

And now my soul no more can bear
To flee from thee, my love13.

The Sun, when rising in the east,

Lurks in thy bosom fair,
And all his setting glories hide

Beneath thy yellow hair14.

12 Qeyyapi fxov XufXTTpoTaTo

k ciyio YiUKTravTwaTO,
tcx KaXXrj crov SeV elV eyio
otov ovpavov airoKOLTW.

13 'Rypo'iKovva Tct KaXXt] crov

k ijXda vd tol £avo'i£a),
kcu SeV fxov S/Set 6 vov<s /xov irXeov,
vd (pevjui vd tci '(prjaa).

14 'O rjXio';, wvTCt irpwra fiyrj,

rrrd rrTrjdr] crov Kovevet,

not <r*rd £avdd crov xa fxaXid

irdyei kcli fiacrtXevet.

Yellow hair was as highly valued by the ancients as it is by the modern
Greeks. Not only is it given to the most celebrated and beautiful courtezans,
(compare Servius, on Virg. Aen. iv. 698.) but even to the Lucretia of Ovid,
(Fasti, 11. 763.) and to the Lavinia of Virgil, (Aen. xn. 605.) Artificial
means were sometimes used to produce the much-desired hue : Menandek,
in Clem. Alex. Paed. in. 2. (p. 235. Meinek.)

NCf 8' epir' air' o'lkoov TwvSe' ti]v yvvaiKa yap
ti)v (Tiocppov ov Set Tas Tptxas ^a.vQd's iroieiv.
Valerius Maximus, ii. 1.5. "Quo formam suam concinniorem efficerent,
summa cum diligentia capillos cinere rutilarunt." Petronius Arbi ter,
ex. p. 655. See Perizonius, on Aelian, V. H. ix. (j. p. 586.