Non formosus erat, sed erat facundus Ulixes,
et tamen aequoreas torsit amore Deas.
Soren Kierkegaard
"Either/Or - A Fragment of Life"
p. 299
Penguin Classics, London, 1992, 2004
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'Ulysses was not handsome, but he was eloquent, and he caused the sea goddesses [Circe and Calypso] to be tormented with love.'
Cf. Ovid, Ars amandii, II, 123.
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