should then have recourse to other ways of attracting others to himself. Now good looks, good
qualities, youth, and liberality are the chief and most natural means of making a person agreeable
in the eyes of others. But in the absence of these a man or a woman must have resort to artificial
means, or to art, the art of it is called MAKEUP
When a female attendant arrives at the age of puberty, her master should keep her secluded, and
when men ardently desire her on account of her seclusion, and on account of the difficulty of
approaching her, he should then bestow her hand on such a person as may endow her with
wealth and happiness. This is a means of increasing the loveliness of a person in the eyes of
others. In the same way, when the daughter of a courtesan arrives at the age of puberty, the
mother should get together a lot of young men of the same age, disposition, and knowledge as
her daughter, and tell them that she would give her in marriage to the person who would give her
presents of a particular kind. After this the daughter should be kept in seclusion as far as
possible, and the mother should give her in marriage to the man who may be ready to give her
the presents agreed upon. If the mother is unable to get so much out of the man, she should
show some of her own things as having been given to the daughter by the bridegroom. Or the
mother may allow her daughter to be married to the man privately, as if she was ignorant of the
whole affair, and then pretending that it has come to her knowledge, she may give her consent to
the union. The daughter, too, should make herself attractive to the sons of wealthy citizens,
unknown to her mother, and make them attached to her, and for this purpose should meet them
at the time of learning to sing, and in places where music is played, and at the houses of other
people, and then request her mother, through a female friend, or servant, to be allowed to unite
herself to the man who is most agreeable to her. When the daughter of a courtesan is thus given
to a man, the ties of marriage should be observed for one year, and after that she may do what
she likes. But even after the end of the year, when otherwise engaged, if she should be now and
then invited by her first husband to come and see him, she should put aside her present gain,
and go to him for the night. Such is the mode of temporary marriage among courtesans, and of
increasing their loveliness, and their value in the eyes of others. What has been said about them
should also be understood to apply to the daughters of dancing women, whose mothers should
give them only to such persons as are likely to become useful to them in various ways. Thus end
the ways of making oneself lovely in the eyes of others.
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