Ribald Classic: The Tale Of A Welcoming Wife

March, 1964

There once lived in ancient Greece a man of nasty nature who kept his beautiful wife locked up in his house against the risk of anyone's becoming too friendly with her. One day he had to depart on a mission to a far town. Before he left he sent for the eunuch Myrmex and said to him: "Slave! If any man so much as touches my wife with the tips of his fingers as he passes her in the street, I'll chain you up in a dungeon and starve you to death." The husband then set out on his trip with...