{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob030.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob030.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob030.htm","text":"Since both of us adored him, we engaged to play a game of dice for him. That was a famous party. Many maidens watched most anxiously.\nShe led off with the Cyclops throw, and I cast the Solon. Then she threw Kallibolos, and I, sensing my defeat, besought the Goddess.\nI played, I threw Epiphenon, she the high cast of Kios; I the Antiteukos and she the Trikias; and then I threw the cast of Aphrodite which wins the cherished lover.\nThe girl grew pale; I clasped her by the neck and whispered in her ear (that no one else might know), \"Don't cry, my friend, we'll let him choose between us.\"","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: I. Bucolics In Pamphylia: Game of Dice","type":"page"}