"Wine and treacherous toasts and the sweet love of Nicagoras sent Aglaonice to sleep; and here hath she dedicated to Cypris these spoils of her maiden love still all dripping with scent, her sandals and the soft band that held her bosom, witnesses to her sleep and his violence then."
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Hedylus (Greek: Ἥδυλος; fl. 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period. His epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager, now lost. Eleven are preserved in the Greek Anthology.
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