The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more:
A fourth is come, with perfume sprinkled o'er.
'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she
Away, the Graces would no Graces be.

Τέσσαρες αἱ Χάριτες· ποτὶ γὰρ μία ταῖς τρισὶ τήναις
ἄρτι ποτεπλάσθη κἦτι μύροισι νοτεῖ.
εὐαίων ἐν πᾶσιν ἀρίζηλος Βερενίκα,
ἇς ἄτερ ουδ᾿ αὐταὶ ταὶ Χάριτες Χάριτες.

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