Elephantis was a Greek poetess apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual. Her works have not survived. According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Tiberius took a complete set of her works with him when he retreated to his resort on Capri. One of the classical epigrams to Priapus collected by Sir Richard Burton refers to her books: :"Obscenas rigido deo tabellas<br>dicans ex Elephantidos libellis<br>dat donum Lalage rogatque, … Wikipedia
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