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“My fingers on her breasts, our mouths joined; I graze with deep fury on her silver neck; yet though I labor over Aphrogeneia this virgin lets me go so far—and denies me her bed. Her upper body she allows to Aphrodite, but her under parts she commits to chaste Athena. I waste away between.”

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