ABSTRACT
“Now my dear sisters, through whom the ways to my realms are manifest to whoever wants to don wings to ascend there, may your actions–lawful and honest, upright, good, holy, and virtuous; worthy of praise, simple, and modest–uncover the dark and cloudy eyes of Ameto, so that he may acquire the power to see my joyous beauties (inasmuch as it is given to mankind to perceive them) and so that, burning with me, he may know how to speak of me to his comrades. You behold him, and he appears all enflamed in the desire of which I speak, and for fear he knows not how to disclose it–he is still so offended by terrestrial terror.”
