person
Cypassis
Corinna's hairdressing slave-girl and the poet's secret lover; the 'dusky Cypassis' of poems 2.7 and 2.8.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.7 Cypassis
Corinna's hairdressing slave, falsely (then truly) charged with sharing the poet's bed; the subject of 2.7 and 2.8.