The sweet courtesan, Colophónian;

E'en from her wrinkles I feel

Love's irresistible steel!

O ye wretches, whose hunger

Was raised for her when she was younger!

Through what flames, alas,

Must she have forced you to pass! —Walsh.


Hermesianax. (Book xiii. § 71, p. 953.)

Such was the nymph, whom Orpheus led