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  • Author Philodemos the Epicurean
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    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.

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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.

-Philodemos the Epicurean

 

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