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		<title>~Other -- Lynne Alpern &#038; Esther Blumenfeld, Oh, Lord, I Sound Just Like Mama (1986)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you go through life trading on your good looks, there’ll come a time when no one wants to trade.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you go through life trading on your good looks, there’ll come a time when no one wants to trade. </p>
<br>(Other Authors and Sources)<br>Lynne Alpern &#038; Esther Blumenfeld, <i>Oh, Lord, I Sound Just Like Mama</i> (1986) 
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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  5, l. 343ff (5.343-344) (29-19 BC) [tr. Conington (1866)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But more Euryalus finds grace: So well the tears beseem his face, And worth appears with brighter shine When lodged within a lovely shrine. [Tutatur favor Euryalum, lacrimaeque decorae, gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus.] Why the spectators at the Funeral Games race support Eurayalus as winner, despite the shenanigans at the finish line: [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But more Euryalus finds grace:<br />
So well the tears beseem his face,<br />
And worth appears with brighter shine<br />
When lodged within a lovely shrine.</p>
<p><em>[Tutatur favor Euryalum, lacrimaeque decorae,<br />
gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70–19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  5, l. 343ff (5.343-344) (29-19 BC) [tr. Conington (1866)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_5#:~:text=But%20more%20Euryalus%20finds%20grace%3A%0ASo%20well%20the%20tears%20beseem%20his%20face%2C%0AAnd%20worth%20appears%20with%20brighter%20shine%0AWhen%20lodged%20within%20a%20lovely%20shrine." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Why the spectators at the Funeral Games race support Eurayalus as winner, despite the shenanigans at the finish line: because he's pretty.<br><br>

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D5%3Acard%3D315#:~:text=Tutatur%20favor%20Euryalum%2C%20lacrimaeque%20decorae%2C%0Agratior%20et%20pulchro%20veniens%20in%20corpore%20virtus.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Beauty, sweat tears defend Euryalus:<br>
Vertue with beauty joyn'd more gratefull is.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Beauty%2C%20sweat%20tears,more%20gratefull%20is">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>But favor for Euryalus appears;<br>
His blooming beauty, with his tender tears,<br>
Had brib'd the judges for the promis'd prize.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Virgil_(Dryden)/Aeneid/Book_V#:~:text=But%20favor%20for%20Euryalus%20appears%3B%0AHis%20blooming%20beauty%2C%20with%20his%20tender%20tears%2C%0AHad%20brib%27d%20the%20judges%20for%20the%20promis%27d%20prize.">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The favor [of the spectators] befriends Euryalus, and his graceful tears, and merit that appears more lovely in a comely person.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22merit%20that%20appears%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But favor smiles<br>
For Euryalus, and his becoming tears;<br>
And worth seems worthier in a lovely form.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n165/mode/2up?q=worth+seems+worthier">Cranch</a> (1872), l. 407ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_Practical_Quotations/K2gWAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Even+virtue+is+fairer+when+it+appears+in+a+beautiful+person%22&pg=RA2-PA505&printsec=frontcover">Ward/Hoyt</a> (1882)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Euryalus is strong in favour, and beauty in tears, and the merit that gains grace from so fair a form.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#BOOK_FIFTH:~:text=Euryalus%20is%20strong%20in%20favour%2C%20and%20beauty%20in%20tears%2C%20and%20the%20merit%20that%20gains%20grace%20from%20so%20fair%20a%20form.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But safe goodwill and goodly tears Euryalus do bear,<br>
And lovelier seemeth valour set in body wrought so fair.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#BOOK_V:~:text=But%20safe%20goodwill,wrought%20so%20fair.">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Tears aid Euryalus, and favour pleads<br>
His worth, more winsome in a form so sweet<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#book5line343:~:text=Tears%20aid%20Euryalus%2C%20and%20favour%20pleads%0AHis%20worth%2C%20more%20winsome%20in%20a%20form%20so%20sweet">Taylor</a> (1907)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But general favor smiles<br>
upon Euryalus, whose beauteous tears<br>
commend him much, and nobler seems the worth<br>
of valor clothed in youthful shape so fair.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D5%3Acard%3D315#:~:text=But%20general%20favor%20smiles%0Aupon%20Euryalus%2C%20whose%20beauteous%20tears%0Acommend%20him%20much%2C%20and%20nobler%20seems%20the%20worth%0Aof%20valor%20clothed%20in%20youthful%20shape%20so%20fair.">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Goodwill befriends Euryalus, and his seemly tears and worth, that shows more winsome in a fair form.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n477/mode/2up?q=%22shows+more+winsome%22">Fairclough</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But all the popular favor<br>
Sides with Euryalus, who is young, and weeping,<br>
And better-looking.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#BOOK_V:~:text=But%20all%20the,And%20better%2Dlooking">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Popular feeling sided with Euryalus -- there was also <br>
His manly distress, and that worth which is made the more winning by good looks.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/112/mode/2up?q=%22popular+feeling+sided%22">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But popularity<br>
protects Euryalus, together with<br>
his graceful tears and worth that please the more<br>
since they appear in such a handsome body.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/116/mode/2up?q=%22But+popularity%22">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), l. 451ff] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The crowd's support and his own quiet tears<br>
Were in Euryalus's favor: prowess<br>
Ever more winning for a handsome form.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/136/mode/2up?q=%22the+crowd%27s+support%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>On the side of Euryalus were the favour in which he was held, his beauty as he stood there weeping and the manly spirit growing in that lovely body.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/114/mode/2up?q=%22on+the+side+of+Euryalus%22">West</a> (1990)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>His popularity protects Euryalus, and fitting tears,<br>
and ability is more pleasing in a beautiful body.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidV.php#anchor_Toc1537953:~:text=His%20popularity%20protects,a%20beautiful%20body.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But Euryalus has the people on his side,<br>
plus modest tears and his own gallant ways,<br>
favored all the more for his handsome build.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22handsome%20build%22">Fagles</a> (2006), l. 379ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Euryalus' popularity and graceful tears protected him and his purity, so lovely in a lovely boy.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22graceful%20tears%22&printsec=frontcover">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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