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The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius

Note 15 — BOOK II.

Rowland Smith translation

Tasso has introduced this stratagem of a lover into his Aminta, Act ii. sc. 2, where Sylvia cures Phyllis stung by a bee, by kissing her, upon which Aminta, pretends to have been stung in order to be cured by the same agreeable remedy.

"Che, fingendo ch' un' ape avesse morso Il mio labbre di sotto, incominciai A lamentarmi di cotal maniera, Che quella medicina che la lingua Non richiedeva, il volto richiedeva."

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