place
Crete
also: Κρήτη, Κρήσσαι (Cretan women)
The great southern island, anciently famous for choral dance — the comparison behind the Cretan women dancing around the altar (incerti auctoris 16).
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §inc-16 Cretan
Crete had an old fame for choral dance — Homer already pictures dancing-floors at Cnossos — so 'as Cretan women once danced' is a comparison to the acknowledged masters of the art.