Scaife ATLAS

Conjugal Precepts (1)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg078.perseus-eng4:1

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Solon advised that the bride should eat a quince before she entered the nuptial sheets; intimating thereby, in my opinion, that the man was to expect his first pleasures from the breath and speech of his new-married bed-fellow.

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