[222] "_Castrum quasi Castum, Castra_," says Isidorus in his _Etymologies_, Lib. IX., "sunt ubi miles steterit: dicta autem, castra, quasi casta, eo quod ibi castraretur libido." _A castle_ from _castrating of lust_. [223] Quæritur Ægystus quare sit factus adulter In promptu causa est: desidiosus.--De Remed. Amoris. [224] "Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis artes." [225] See Pausanias's "Corinthians." [226] Vide Cicero, lib. V., Tusc. Questions and Plutarch's Treatise of Curiosity. It must, however, be observed, that this story is wholly incredible, inasmuch as the same writers affirm that Democritus employed his leisure in writing books and in dissecting the bodies of animals, neither of which could very well be effected without the eyes. [227] In Lucian, in the Dialogue entitled--"Venus and Cupid." [228] The story itself is the same as that related by Poggio (Bracciolini) of a hermit of Pisa. "Eremita," says he, "qui Pisis morabatur, tempore Petri Gambacurtæ, meretricem noctu in suam ce lulan deduxit, vigesiesque ea nocte mulierem cognovit; semper cum moveret clunes, ut crimen fugeret luxuriæ vulgaribus verbis dicens: 'domati, carne cattizella;' hoc est, doma te, miserrima caro!" THE END. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Repro, by John Davenport