Again, there are two orders of beauty: in the one, loveliness predominates; in the other, dignity; of these, we ought to regard loveliness as the attribute of woman, and dignity as the attribute of man.
Cicero distinguishes between two forms of beauty, assigning loveliness primarily to women and dignity primarily to men.
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