6. The poet's lively description of his deformity (i.
110-125) is confirmed by the authentic testimony of
Chrysostom (tom. iii. [in Eutrop. i. c. 3] p. 384, edit.
Montfaucon), who observes that, when the paint was washed
away, the face of Eutropius appeared more ugly and wrinkled
than that of an old wornan. Claudian remarks (i. 469), and
the remark must have been founded on experience, that there
was scarcely any interval between the youth and the decrepit
age of a eunuch.