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LEAENA
I love you as much as I love any woman, but she’s terribly like a man.
CLONARIUM
I don’t understand what you mean, unless she’s a sort of woman for the ladies. They say there are women like that in Lesbos, with faces like men, and unwilling to consort with men, but only with women, as though they themselves were men.
LEAENA
It’s something like that.
CLONARIUM
Well, tell me all about it; tell me how she made her first advances to you, how you were persuaded, and what followed.
LEAENA
She herself and another rich woman, with the same accomplishments, Demonassa from Corinth, were organising a drinking party, and had taken me along to provide them with music. But, when I had finished playing, and it was late and time to turn in and they were drunk, Megilla said, “Come along Leaena, it’s high time we were in bed; you sleep here between us.”
CLONARIUM
And did you? What happened after that?
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