Nonnos
Nonnos
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“Artemis, you only have the name of a virgin maid, because your rounded breasts are full and soft, a woman's breasts like the Paphian, not a man's like. Athena, and your cheeks shed a rosy radiance ! Well, since you have a body like that desirous goddess, why not be queen of marriage as well as Cythereia with her wealth of fine hair, and receive a bride- groom into your chamber?
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I ask pardon of your beauty, but I am much better than you. See what a vigorous body i have! Look at Aura's body like a boy's, and her step swifter than Zephyros ! See the muscles upon my arms, look at my breasts, round and unripe, not like a woman. You might almost say that yours are swelling with drops of milk ! Why are your arms so tender, why are your breasts not round like Aura's, to tell the world themselves of unviolated maidenhood.”
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