Herodas' Mimes
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Herodas, a Greek poet in the 3rd century BCE, wrote mimes which were short humorous dramatic scene in verse. These were scenes in popular life, written in the language of the people, His work was discovered in a papyrus in 1890 and is the largest collection of the genre.
In the sixth mime one girl, Metro, is jealous of her friend Koritto’s new dildo.
In the sixth mime one girl, Metro, is jealous of her friend Koritto’s new dildo.
METRO: I beg you, don’t lie, dear Koritto. Who was the Man who stitched for you this red dildo?
Koritto tells her a man named Kerdon made them and that he sells them secretly out of his house to try to avoid the tax collectors. Then she says:
KORITTO: But the things he makes, all of them, are worthy of Athena; you would believe you saw her hand, instead of Kerdo’s. He came here with two, Metro! When I saw them, my eyes nearly burst out with desire. The men certainly have no rams like those! — And this is not all: their smoothness — a dream; and the stitches — of down, not of thread! Hunt as you might, you could not find another cobbler so kindly disposed toward women.
METRO: Why then did you not take the other one as well?
KORITTO: What didn’t I do, Metro? What sort of means of persuasion did I not apply him? Kissing him, stroking his bald head, pouring out a sweet drink for him, calling him by a pet name, giving him all but my body to enjoy.
METRO: If he asked, even that, you ought to have given him it.
Koritto tells her a man named Kerdon made them and that he sells them secretly out of his house to try to avoid the tax collectors. Then she says:
KORITTO: But the things he makes, all of them, are worthy of Athena; you would believe you saw her hand, instead of Kerdo’s. He came here with two, Metro! When I saw them, my eyes nearly burst out with desire. The men certainly have no rams like those! — And this is not all: their smoothness — a dream; and the stitches — of down, not of thread! Hunt as you might, you could not find another cobbler so kindly disposed toward women.
METRO: Why then did you not take the other one as well?
KORITTO: What didn’t I do, Metro? What sort of means of persuasion did I not apply him? Kissing him, stroking his bald head, pouring out a sweet drink for him, calling him by a pet name, giving him all but my body to enjoy.
METRO: If he asked, even that, you ought to have given him it.
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