yellow and glowing red

“‘You people dress in yellow and glowing red,
You live for sloth, and you go in for dancing,
Sleeves to your tunics, ribbons to your caps,
Phrygian women, in truth not Phrygian men!’”

Virgil, The Aeneid, between 29 and 19 BCE, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, 1983.

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