CROBYLE
Certainly, daughter. They pay more, let me tell you, while the handsome wish only to be handsome by way of payment. You too must always think of the bigger fee, if you want all the women soon to point you out and say, “See how very rich Corinna, Crobyle’s daughter, is, and how she’s made her mother prosperous three times over!” What do you say? Will you do it? I know you will, and you’ll easily beat all the others. Now go and take a bath, in case your boy Eucritus comes again today. He promised he would.
MOTHER
If we find another lover like Chaereas, Musarium, we’ll have to sacrifice a white goat to earthly Aphrodite, and a heifer to the statue of heavenly Aphrodite in the Gardens, A statue by Alcamenes. Cf. Essays in Portraiture 4, Pausanias 1.19.2, and Pliny, N.H. XXXVI, 16. and offer a wreath to Demeter, Giver of Wealth! We shall be prosperous and more than doubly blessed! You can see how much we’re getting from the young fellow at present! He has never given you so much as a penny, or a dress, or a pair of shoes, or a bottle of scent. Always there are excuses and promises and hopes for the distant future, and he keeps saying, “If only my father—” Sc. “dies”, which is omitted out of delicacy and piety. or “If I get my inheritance,” or “It will all be yours.” And you say he’s promised on oath to make you his lawful wedded wife.
MUSARIUM
Yes, mother, he swore by the two goddesses Demeter and Persephone. and by the Protectress of Athens.
