(You pluck your chest, your legs, your arms, your _shaven member_ is surrounded by short hair,—all these pains you offer, everyone knows it, to your mistress.) Bk. IX. 27., Cum _depilatos_, Chreste _coleos_ portes, Et _vulturino mentulam parem collo_, Et prostitutis laevius caput culis, Nec vivat ullus in tuo pilus crure Purgentque crebrae cana labra volsellae etc. (For you have _your testicles freed from hair_, Chrestus, and _your member like a vulture’s neck_, and your head smoother than those posteriors that you prostitute. Not a hair lives on your leg, and frequent application of the tweezers keeps clean your shaven lips, etc.) Comp. Bk. IX. 48. 58. _Suetonius_, Otho 12. _Persius_, IV. 37. _Ausonius_, 131. [217] _Aristophanes_, Lysistrat. 151., Εἰ γὰρ καθῄμεθ’ ἔνδον ἐντετριμμέναι κἀν τοῖς χιτωνίοισι τοῖς ἀμοργίνοις γυμναὶ παρίοιμεν, _δέλτα παρατετιλμέναι_, στύοιντ’ ἂν ἅνδρες κἀπιθυμοῖεν πλεκοῦν. (For if we sat within doors anointed with unguents, and if we appeared lightly clad in robes of Amorgian flax, _our bellies plucked clear of hair_, the men would all have erections, and would be fain to lie with us.) For the same reason Mnesilochus was freed of hair on the genitals and in all other parts of the body, so as not to be recognised in the assemblage of women. [218] Aristophanes, Eccl. 718., says of prostitutes: καὶ τάς γε δούλας οὐχὶ δεῖ κοσμουμένας τὴν τῶν ἐλευθέρων ὑφαρπάζειν Κύπριν, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοῖς δούλοισι κοιμᾶσθαι μόνον. κατωνάκῃ _τὸν χοῖρον ἀποτετιλμένας_. (And the slave-women ought not to bedizen themselves and snatch away the love that is free-women’s by rights; but should lie with slaves only, their pudenda plucked clean to please the wearer of the smock.) Frogs 515., Ξ. πῶς λέγεις; ὀρχηστρίδες; Θ. ἡβυλλιῶσαι κἄρτι παρατετιλμέναι (Xanthius. What say you? dancing-girls? Therap. Yes! young wenches, just _plucked clean_). Comp. Lysistrat. 88. [219] _Martial_, bk. XII. Epigr. 32., Nec plena turpi matris olla resina Summoenianae qua pilantur uxores. (Nor yet your mother’s jars full of foul resin, wherewith the suburban dames free themselves of hair.) [220] Martial, bk. X. Epigr. 90., Quid vellis _vetulum_, Ligella, _cunnum_? Quid busti cineres tui lacessis? Tales _munditiae_ decent puellas. Erras, si tibi cunnus hic videtur, Ad quem mentula pertinere desit.