Not for me a tall and dandy captain with a shaven chin,
flaunting all affectedly his dainty lovelocks as he struts;
I'd prefer one short and bandy-legged, with a heart within
stout and good, and firmly planted on his feet, and full of guts.

E. Diehl (ed.) Anthologia Lyrica Graeca (3rd ed., 1949–52) vol. 1, no. 60, translated by A. R. Burn