I feel it.

In her pursuit of men she had at her command all the means which aid us women to conceal what is unlovely and enhance what is beautiful in a lover's eyes, while I was at a disadvantage, lacking your aid and the long-tested skill of Olympus.
The divinity on the ship, amid the raging of the storm, was forced more than once to appear before the worshipper ungarlanded, without ornament for the head, or incense." "But though she used all the combined arts of Aphrodite and Isis, she could not vie with you, my royal mistress!" cried Iras.

"How little is required to delude the senses of one scarcely more than a child!" "Poor boy!" sighed the Queen, gently.

"Had he not been wounded, and were it not so hard to resign what we love, I should rejoice that he, too, understands how to plan and act.

Perhaps--O Iras, would that it might be so!--now that the gate is burst open, the brain and energy of the great Caesar will enter his living image.