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one of the oldest jokes in the book

Καππαδόκην ποτ’ ἔχιδνα κακὴ δάκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴ // κάτθανε γευσαμένη αἵματος ἰοβόλου.

A nasty asp once bit a Cappadocian girl; one taste of her arrow-slinging blood, though, and the snake died.

—Demodocus (III; 4 B. & D.)
Epigrammata Graeca (ed. Page)