But delicately tasting of each dish,

In mouthfuls small, like a Milesian maiden.

And Antiphanes says in his Hydra—

But he, the man of whom I now was speaking,

Seeing a woman who lived near his house,

A courtesan, did fall at once in love with her;

She was a citizen, without a guardian

Or any near relations, and her manners

Pure, and on virtue's strictest model form'd,

A genuine mistress (ἑταῖρα); for the rest of the crew