“Ἡ χρηστὴ νύμφη μία τῶν Ἐμπουσῶν ἐστιν ἃς Λαμιάς τε καὶ Μορμολυκίας οἱ πολλοὶ ἡγοῦνται ......... σαρκῶν δὲ, καὶ μάλιστα ἀνθρωπείων, ἐρῶσι, καὶ παλλεύουσι (ἴσ. σφαλλουσι) τοῖς ἀφροδισίοις, οὓς ἂν ἐθέλωσι δαίσασθαι.”
[4] Cp. the 26th Taranga of this work, and the parallels referred to there. See also the Losakajátaka, the 41st in Fausböll’s edition. Oesterley refers us to Benfey’s Panchatantra, 151 and following pages. See Waldau, Böhmische Märchen, p. 410.
[5] More literally “through my merits in a former state of existence.”
[6] Cp. Spenser’s Fairy Queen, Book III, canto 6. stanza 42.
There is continual spring, and harvest there
Continual, both meeting at one tyme.
Cp. also Odyssey VII 117, Milton, P. L., IV. 148.