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Chrysis (in Trabea)

Chrysis

also: Chrysis

The courtesan beloved by the exultant young lover in a comic fragment of the playwright Trabea, quoted by Cicero as an example of shameful joy. The lover boasts that Chrysis will rush eagerly to embrace him.

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