Book 13
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And it happened, as it is said, that Charmus was a great admirer of Hippias, and that he was the man who first erected a statue of Love in the Academy, on which there is the following inscription— O wily Love, Charmus this altar raised At the well-shaded bounds of her Gymnasium. Hesiod, also, in the third book of his Melampodia, calls Chalcis in Eubœa, Land of fair women;— for the women there are very beautiful, as Theophrastus also asserts. And Nymphodorus, in his Voyage round Asia, says that there are nowhere more beautiful women than those in Tenedos, an island close to Troy.
