Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.105

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(III) A wise man, perhaps an ascetic, fills the world with his renown. A lovely woman, probably from the beginning an hetæra, undertakes to seduce him. She is successful, brings him triumphantly into the city, and doubtless rides on his back in the way that is already very old (cp. Hiuen Thsang, and Jāt., No. 191). Here belongs the well-known history of Aristoteles and Phyllis, which is so beautifully told in the " Lais d'Aristote " of Henri d' Andeli (*Œuvres*, ed. A. Héron, Paris, 1891, p. 1 ff.). Cp. there p. xxviii ff.; Hagen's *Gesamt-ab.*, i, p. 17 ff., lxxv ff.; F. v. d. Leyen in *Herrigs Archiv*, Bd. 116, p. 298 ff.; Cardonne, *Mélanges*, p. 10 ff. (English transl., i, 14 ff.); Benfey's *Panschat.*, i, 46 ff.; ii, 306; Lacôte, *Guṇādhya et la Brihat-kathā*, p. 241; etc. (A whole set of references are already given in the first paragraph of this note. A great number of forms I have undoubtedly not seen, and so not mentioned them). Borgeld, *Aristoteles en Phyllis*, Groningen, 1912, I do not know.