Alcaeus was charmed with a wart on a boy's knuckle; but a wart is a blemish on the body; yet it seemed a beauty to him.

Q.Catulus, my friend and colleague's father, was enamored with your fellow-citizen Roscius, on whom he wrote these verses: As once I stood to hail the rising day, Roscius appearing on the left I spied: Forgive me, Gods, if I presume to say The mortal's beauty with th' immortal vied.
Roscius more beautiful than a God! yet he was then, as he now is, squint-eyed.

But what signifies that, if his defects were beauties to Catulus?
XXIX.

I return to the Gods.

Can we suppose any of them to be squint-eyed, or even to have a cast in the eye?
Have they any warts?
Are any of them hook-nosed, flap-eared, beetle-browed, or jolt-headed, as some of us are?
Or are they free from imperfections?
Let us grant you that.