{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob061.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob061.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob061.htm","text":"That Mnasidika may be protected by the gods, I sacrificed two doves and two male hares to laughter-loving Aphrodite.\nTo Ares 80 I have given two armed cocks, and sinister Hecate has received two dogs who howled beneath the knife.\nNor have I wrongly prayed these three immortals, for Mnasidika bears upon her face the imprint of their trinal godhead:\nHer lips are red as copper, her hair shines blue as steel and her eyes are black as silver.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: II. Elegies At Mytilene: Mnasidika'...","type":"page"}