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connoted sexual aggressivity and shamelessness, and the verb lesbiazein could mean to “fellate.” Another possibility is that the (feminine) “other” that the girl gapes at can, in the Greek, take the (feminine) noun “hair” as its antecedent. In this case, the girl would reject the speaker's white hair for “another” (scil. younger man's) head of hair; or, if the poet is playing on the Lesbian reputation for fellation, the girl might prefer the dark (pubic) hair of another, younger man.
Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid
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