"Chloe wanted to know what else there could be besides kissing and embracing and simply lying down, and what he intended to do after they were both naked and he had lain down with her.‘What the rams do to the ewes and the he-goats to the sea-goats’, said Daphnis. ‘Don’t you see how, after they've done what they do, the females don’t run away from the males any more and the males don’t weary themselves going after them, but from that time on they graze side-by-side as though they had enjoyed some kind of pleasure together? So what they do must be something sweet, that puts away the bitterness of love.’"
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