The Histories · 4.176

Next to these Macai are the Gindanes, whose women wear each of them a number of anklets made of the skins of animals, for the following reason, as it is said:—for every man who has commerce with her she binds on an anklet, and the woman who has most is esteemed the best, since she has been loved by the greatest number of men.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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