“Philenis, fill our silent confidant— the lamp—with olive dew. Then go, and lock the stout door behind you, for love abhors a breathing witness; and you, sweet Xantho, let us begin . . . Only my couch, a friend to lovers, will know the secrets of Aphrodite.” Willis BarnstonePhilodemos The Epicurean Author:Philodemos the Epicurean