{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob125.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob125.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob125.htm","text":"\"Hear me, old girl. In three days I shall give a festival. I must have a novel entertainment, You will rent me all your girls. How many have you, and say, what can they do?\"\n\"--I have seven. Three dance the kordax with the scarf and phallos. Nephele of the glossy armpits will imitate the love of doves between her rosy breasts.\nA singer in a broidered peplos will sing the songs of Rhodes, accompanied by flute-blowers with myrtle-garlands twined about their chestnut limbs.\"\n--That's well. Have them freshly shaven, bathed and perfumed from head to foot, ready for other games should they be asked. Go give my orders. Farewell.\"","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: III. Epigrams in the Isle of Cyprus: The Command","type":"page"}