{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob018.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob018.htm","text":"Travelers coming from Sardis speak of the necklaces and precious stones with which the Lydian women deck themselves, from the tops of their tresses to their tinted feet.\nThe young girls of my country have neither bracelets nor diadems, but their fingers bear a silver ring, upon the scroll of which the triangle of the goddess is engraved.\nWhen they turn the apex outward, it signifies; \"Psyche to be taken.\" And, when they turn it inward: \"Psyche taken.\"\nThe men believe in it, the women don't. As for myself, I scarcely notice the direction of the apex, for Psyche is an easy catch. She is always to be taken.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: I. Bucolics In Pamphylia: The Symbo...","type":"page"}