Book V, 298

Charming Maria is too exalted : but do thou, holy Justice, punish her arrogance, yet not by death, my taken. Agathias wrongly supposes it to refer to the stream of wine which, in the long obsolete game of cottabos, was aimed at a brazen bowl. Queen, but on the contrary may she reach grey old age, may her hard face grow wrinkled. May the grey hairs avenge these tears, and beauty, the cause of her soul’s transgression, suffer for it.