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Then most of all, Corinna. Also, she doesn’t talk too much or make fun of any of the company, and has eyes only for her customer. These are the things that make her popular with the men. Again, when it’s time for bed, she’ll never do anything coarse or slovenly, but her only aim is to attract the man and make him love her; these are the things they all praise in her. If you can learn all this, we’ll be just as prosperous as she is. For, in all else, compared with her, you’re a long way—but, good Nemesis, The aposiopesis occurs because Crobyle realises that too proud boasts about her daughter may incur the jealous wrath of Nemesis. On such occasions the Greeks preferred to pray to Nemesis (cf. Aeschylus, P. V. 936, Plato Rep. 451a and Sophocles Phil. 776) so as to avoid her wrath. I won’t mention that, but only pray for long life for you.
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Tell me, mother, are all the customers like Eucritus, with whom I slept last night?
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Not all of them; some are better. Some are already men; some again are not at all good-looking.
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And must I sleep with men like that?
4
Certainly, daughter. They pay more, let me tell you, while the handsome wish only to be handsome by way of payment. You too must always think of the bigger fee, if you want all the women soon to point you out and say, “See how very rich Corinna, Crobyle’s daughter, is, and how she’s made her mother prosperous three times over!” What do you say? Will you do it? I know you will, and you’ll easily beat all the others. Now go and take a bath, in case your boy Eucritus comes again today. He promised he would.
