Between Scylla and Charybdis

Cum duo venissent ad Phyllida mane fututum et nudam cuperet sumere uterque prior, promisit pariter se Phyllis utrique daturam, et dedit: ille pedem sustulit, hic tunicam. On Phyllis one morning a couple of bucks Paid a lecherous call: they were looking for fucks. But each wants to strip her and have the first thrust, While Phyllis is eager to seem and be just. So one lifts up her legs for the tool’s firm caress, As the other then lifts up the back of her dress.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 10, LXXXI
English translation by John Patrick Sullivan

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Biblis (réduction), 1884. Photo courtesy of Art Renewal Center.