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KORITTO: What didn't I do, Metro dear'? And what didn't I do to persuade him'? I kissed him, I patted his bald head, I poured out some sweet wine for him to drink, I fondled him, the only thing I didn't do was to give him my body. METRO: But you should have given him that too, if he asked it.
KORITTO: Yes, and I would have, but Bitas slave girl commenced grinding in the court, just at the wrong moment; she has reduced our hand mill nearly to powder by grinding day and night for fear she might have four obols to pay for having her own sharpened. METRO: But how did he happen to come to your house, Koritto dear? You'll tell me the truth won't you, now?
KORITTO: I begged him to tell me but he swore he wouldn't, that's how much he thought of me, Metro dear. A lascivious dance of the old Greek comedy. Any person who performed this dance except upon the stage was considered drunk or dissolute. Many ancient authors and scholiasts have commented upon the looseness and sex appeal of this dance.
KORITTO: He's neither of those you've mentioned, Metro; this fellow is bald headed and short, he comes from Chios or Erythrai, I think you would mistake him for another Prexinos, one fig could not look more like another, but just hear him talk, and you'll know that he is Kerdon and not Prexinos.
METRO: I'm afraid you'll say something if I tell you. KORITTO: My dear Metro, if anybody hears anything you tell me, from Koritto's mouth, I hope I go blind. METRO: It was given to her by Eubole of Bitas, and she cautioned her not to let a soul hear of it.
Come, O new generation, inventor of strange pleasures! as you have devised new methods to satisfy male lust, grant the same privilege to women; let them have intercourse with one another like men, girding themselves with the infamous instruments of lust, an unholy imitation of a fruitless union." Herondas, Mime vi: KORITTO | Two women friends METRO | A Female Domestic. Time, about 300 B. C.
KORITTO: That woman will be my undoing, one of these days; I yielded to her importunity and gave it to her before I had used it myself, Metro dear, but to her it was a godsend , now she takes it and gives it to some one who ought not to have it. I bid a long farewell to such a friend as she; let her look out for another friend instead of me. As for Nossis, Adrasteia forgive me.
KORITTO: Artemis the daughter of Kandas directed him to me by pointing out the roof of the tanner's house as a landmark. METRO: That Artemis is always discovering something new to help her make capital out of her skill as a go-between. But anyhow, when you couldn't buy them both you should have asked who ordered the other one.
METRO: You have as hard a time as I do, Koritto, dear day and night these low servants make me gnash my teeth and bark like a dog, just like they do you. KORITTO: Metro, where did you see that? METRO: Why Nossis, the daughter of Erinna, had it three days ago. Oh but it was a beauty! KORITTO: So Nossis had it, did she? Where did she get it, I wonder?
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