Note 13 — Chapter I · OF COPULATION
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This method was not unknown at the time of Aristophanes, as we see from the following passage of the Peace:
“So that you may straightway, lifting up the girl’s legs, accomplish high in air the mysteries” (v. 889, 890).
And in the Birds he says:
“For this girl, your first messenger, why! I will lift up her legs and will in between her thighs” (v. 1254, 55).