Book 5
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We’ve been hearing strange things about you, Leaena. They say that Megilla, the rich Lesbian woman, is in love with you just like a man, that you live with each other, and do goodness knows what together. Hullo! Blushing? Tell me if it’s true.
1
Quite true, Clonarium. But I’m ashamed, for it’s unnatural.
1
In the name of Mother Aphrodite, what’s it all about? What does the woman want? What do you do when you are together? You see, you don’t love me, or you wouldn’t hide such things from me.
1
I love you as much as I love any woman, but she’s terribly like a man.
2
I don’t understand what you mean, unless she’s a sort of woman for the ladies. They say there are women like that in Lesbos, with faces like men, and unwilling to consort with men, but only with women, as though they themselves were men.
2
It’s something like that.
2
Well, tell me all about it; tell me how she made her first advances to you, how you were persuaded, and what followed.
2
She herself and another rich woman, with the same accomplishments, Demonassa from Corinth, were organising a drinking party, and had taken me along to provide them with music. But, when I had finished playing, and it was late and time to turn in and they were drunk, Megilla said, “Come along Leaena, it’s high time we were in bed; you sleep here between us.”
2
And did you? What happened after that?
