Men, whether they are lovers or beloved, are nonetheless undressed by women; we learn this from the very examples.
A not inexperienced woman, capable of hiding her years with refined artifices, kept tied to herself a middle-aged man, but his heart had won him a beautiful girl. Both women, wishing to appear his peers, began, now one now the other, to pluck at the man's hair.
The man, thinking he was well styled by all this feminine care, suddenly found himself bald; the girl had pulled out his white hair from the roots, the old woman, the black ones.
[ A feminis utcumque spoliari viros,
Ament, amentur, nempe exemplis discimus.
Aetatis mediae quendam mulier non rudis
Tenebat annos celans elegantia,
Animosque eiusdem pulchra iuvenis ceperat.
Ambae, videri dum volunt illi pares,
Capillos homini legere coepere invicem.
Qui se putaret pingi cura mulierum,
Calvus repente factus est; nam funditus
Canos puella, nigros anus evellerat.]
A not inexperienced woman, capable of hiding her years with refined artifices, kept tied to herself a middle-aged man, but his heart had won him a beautiful girl. Both women, wishing to appear his peers, began, now one now the other, to pluck at the man's hair.
The man, thinking he was well styled by all this feminine care, suddenly found himself bald; the girl had pulled out his white hair from the roots, the old woman, the black ones.
[ A feminis utcumque spoliari viros,
Ament, amentur, nempe exemplis discimus.
Aetatis mediae quendam mulier non rudis
Tenebat annos celans elegantia,
Animosque eiusdem pulchra iuvenis ceperat.
Ambae, videri dum volunt illi pares,
Capillos homini legere coepere invicem.
Qui se putaret pingi cura mulierum,
Calvus repente factus est; nam funditus
Canos puella, nigros anus evellerat.]
