Lalage
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"The collection of mural paintings from the bath rooms of Pompeii and Herculaneum, now in the Muse Secret, of the latter city, are a collection of this kind. This kind of art possibly came to Rome from India and Egypt. Collections of such drawings were known as the Pictures of Elephantis in ancient Greece and Rome, and it is recorded that a rich Roman matron, Lalage, presented a copy of this work to the temple of Priapus with the prayer that she might be permitted to enjoy the passionate pleasures over which this god presided in all the postures depicted in that celebrated treatise." --Sex and Sex Worship |
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Lalage is a female given name, deriving from Ancient Greek. It may be used as follows.
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People
- Lalage, for whom the Roman poet Horace professes his love in "Integer vitae", a famous poem in Carminum liber primus
- Lalage, for whose love the Roman Legions march in Rudyard Kipling's poem Rimini
- Lalage, the female lead of Poe's play Politian
- Lalage Mary Kathleen Acland, wife of Hubert Acland and mother of Sir Antony Guy Acland, 5th Baronet
- Constance Lalage Thompson, wife of Edward Wakefield and mother of Humphry Wakefield
- Lalage, the child in John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Lalage, the beloved in Thomas Hardy's poem "Timing Her"
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In biology
- Lalage (bird), the genus of the triller birds
- Appias lalage, a butterfly
- Hyalella lalage, an amphipod of the genus Hyalella
- Splendrillia lalage, a sea snail
- Mitrella lalage, a sea snail of the genus Mitrella (gastropod)
- Lalage, a synonym of the legume genus Bossiaea
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Other uses
- 822 Lalage, an asteroid
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