Philological Dissertation on Honored, Learned, Adored, and Fruitful Virginity

continues from previous page: With arms they will embrace my statue, holding it as the greatest remedy against marriages, having obtained the garment of the Furies and the coloring of their faces with medicated dyes.
Lycophron adds,
    By those virgin-bearing women, I, the immortal goddess,
    shall long be called.

Regarding this passage of Lycophron, Tzetzes says thus: If the maidens of the Daunians do not wish to be married to their suitors, whether because of deformity or because of low birth, they flee to my sanctuary, and after smearing their faces with a potion, putting on a black garment, and wrapping their hands around my bretas wooden statue/cult image—that is, the xoanon carved wooden statue—they remain virgins in this way. original: "Virgines Dauniæ si nolint nubere sponsis suis, vel quia forma, vel quia nobilitate carent, si fugiant in templum meum, unguento vultum delibutæ & nigram indutæ vestem, amplexæ manibus meam statuam, sic virgines remanebunt."