{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob105.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob105.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob105.htm","text":"I shall scent my skin all over to attract my lovers. Over my lovely limbs, in a silver basin, I'll pour the spikenard of Tarsos and metopion of Egypt.\nBeneath my arms, some crisped mint; upon my lashes and my eyes, sweet-marjoram of K\u00f4s. Slave, undo my hair, and fill it with the smoke of burning incense.\nHere is o\u00efnanthinon from the mountains of Kypros; I'll let it run between my heavy breasts; rose-liquor shipped from Phaselis will bathe my neck and cheeks.\nAnd now spread on my loins some irresistible bakkaris. It is better for a courtesan to know the Lydian perfumes than the customs of the Peloponnesus.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: III. Epigrams in the Isle of Cyprus: Perfumes","type":"page"}