στύοιντ’ἂν ἅνδρες κἀπιθυμοῖεν πλεκοῦν.
(For if we sat within doors anointed with unguents, and if we appeared lightly clad in robes of Amorgian flax, our bellies plucked clear of hair, the men would all have erections, and would be fain to lie with us.) For the same reason Mnesilochus was freed of hair on the genitals and in all other parts of the body, so as not to be recognised in the assemblage of women.
[218] Aristophanes, Eccl. 718., says of prostitutes:
καὶ τάς γε δούλας οὐχὶ δεῖ κοσμουμένας
τὴν τῶν ἐλευθέρων ὑφαρπάζειν Κύπριν,
ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοῖς δούλοισι κοιμᾶσθαι μόνον.
κατωνάκῃ τὸν χοῖρον ἀποτετιλμένας.
(And the slave-women ought not to bedizen themselves and snatch away the love that is free-women’s by rights; but should lie with slaves only, their pudenda plucked clean to please the wearer of the smock.) Frogs 515., Ξ. πῶς λέγεις; ὀρχηστρίδες; Θ. ἡβυλλιῶσαι κἄρτι παρατετιλμέναι (Xanthius. What say you? dancing-girls? Therap. Yes! young wenches, just plucked clean). Comp. Lysistrat. 88.
[219] Martial, bk. XII. Epigr. 32.,
Nec plena turpi matris olla resina