………………………..In the beginning he pushes in with gentle blows, then quicker, and at last with such force I could not doubt that I was in great danger. His member was hard as horn, and he forced it in so cruelly, that I cried out, “You will tear me to pieces.” He stopped a moment from his work. “I implore you to be quiet, my dear”, he said, “it can only be done this way; endure it without flinching.” Again his hand slid under my buttocks, drawing me nearer, for I had made a feint to draw back, and without more delay plied me with such fast and furious blows that I was near fainting away. (M.Clasical Erotologia / Cap I, Of Copulation).
Friné (Φρύνη), hija de Epicles, es el apodo de una famosa hetairagriega, célebre por su proverbial belleza, nacida en Tespias (Beocia) como Mnésareté (Μνησαρετή). El significado en griego antiguo de este sobrenombre, probablemente antifrástico, es «sapo» (según Plutarco, apuntaría al color aceitunado de su piel); mientras que Mnésareté significaría «conmemoradora de la virtud». Al parecer, huyó con su familia a Atenas en el 375 a. C., año en que los tebanos volvieron a destruir la ciudad, poco antes de la Batalla de Leuctra.