[14] The Latin text of the law is as follows:--"Si mulier stuprata lege cum illo agere velit, membro virili _sinistra prehenso et dextra reliquos sanctorum imposita, juret, super illas quod is per vim se, isto membro, vitiaverit_."--Voyage dans le Département du Finisterre, Tom. iii., p. 233. [15] Hunc locum tibi dedico consacroque, Priape, Quæ domus tua, Lampsaei est, quaque silva, Priape. Nam te præcipue in suis urbibus colit, ora Hellespontia, cæteris ostreosior oris.--Catullus, Carm. xviii. [16] See Plate II., figure 2. [17] From possessing such an article of VIRTU, his Eminence must surely have been of the opinion of Cardinal Bembo--_that there is no sin below the navel_. [18] Falce minax et parte tui majore, Priape, Ad fontem quæso, dic mihi, qua sit iter.--Priapeia Carm. [19] See note [21], p. 11. [20] See S. Augustine, Civ. Dei., lib. 6, cap. 9, and Lactantius _De falsa religione_. lib. I. [21] See Plate I., figure 4. This phallus was found at Pompeii over a baker's door. [22] Thus his statue was placed in orchards as a scare-crow to drive away superstitious thieves, as well as children and birds. Pomarii tutela, diligens _rubro_ Priape, furibus minare mutino.--Priapeia Carm. 73. [23] Ind. Antiq. ii., p, 361. [24] Ind. Antiq., vol. I., p. 247. [25] Voyage dans la Chine par Avril, Liv. iii., p. 194. [26] Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. i., p. 269. [27] Worship of Priapus. [28] _Ibid._, p 48. [29] For some ingenious and learned observations on the Tau or Crux Ansata see Classical Journal, No. 39, p. 182. [30] Chap. ix., v. 3. "And the Lord said unto him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the forehead of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof." [31] For a description of some of the above-mentioned Crosses, see Plate V., also "_Voyage dans la basse et la haute-Egypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte_, 1802 et 1829," par Denon--Planches 48, 78. [32] This city was the birth place of the deity Priapus, whose orgies were there constantly celebrated. Alexander the Great, in his Persian expedition, resolved to destroy Lampsacus on account of its many vices, or rather from a jealousy of its adherence to Persia; but it was saved by the artifice of the philosopher Anaxamenes, who, having heard that the king had sworn to refuse whatever he should ask him, begged him to destroy the city. [33] Journal d'Henri III. par l'Etoile. Tom. 5. [34] Historie Religieuse du Calendrier, p. 420. [35] Johannis Goropii Becani, Origines Antwerpianæ, 1569, lib. i., p.p. 26 and 101.