“From his perspiring forehead flowed rivulets of acacia juice, and in the wrinkles of his cheeks there was such a mass of chalk that you might have believed you saw a wall exposed to the wind and washed by the rain” (_Satyricon_, ch. 23). But let us leave all these nasty preparations, before we find ourselves stuck fast in them. We have said that another branch of this business, on the part of the _patient_, consists in _cevere_. A _patient cevet_, who during the action wriggles and moves his haunches up and down, so as to enjoy more pleasure himself and give more pleasure to the pedicon. Women, doing the same in copulation, are said to _crissare_. Martial, III., 95: “Nay! you pedicate finely, Naevolus; you ply your haunches right well.” Juvenal, II., 20-23: “... Virtue on their lips, they ply their buttocks.—‘Shall I honour you, in the act of your back-play, Sextus?’ says the infamous Varillus....” The same author, IX., 40: “With calculated art moves his haunches.” Plautus, in the _Pseudolus_, III., 75: “Soon as ever the fellow cowers down, ply your haunches in time to him.” For this reason some authorities hold, I do not know whether rightly or wrongly, the word _cinede_ to come from the fact that the wretches known by that name are in the habit of _wriggling the private parts_. Undoubtedly the suppleness of the thighs, the agility of the buttocks are counted amongst the particular talents of cinedes in Petronius, ch. 23: Enter a Cinede reciting these verses: “Hither, come hither, cinede wantons,—stretch the foot and take your course, fly with soles in the air, with supple thighs, and nimble buttocks, and libertine hands,—all ye old, emasculated minions of Delos, come!” To this subject also refers _Epigr._ XXXVI of the 1st Book of the _Hermaphroditus_, edited by us; which consult, reader, if worth your while. As he who wriggles with his haunches does it to please somebody, people use the word _cevere_ also to convey the meaning of sycophancy or adulation. Thus: “An, Romule, ceves” (What Romulus, you fawn too?) in Persius (I., 87); in the same way _irrumate_ is used in the sense of an outrage, affront. That women _can_ be pedicated, exactly the same as men, is indicated by nature; that they _have_ consented, is proved by numerous testimonies in Antiquity.—Apuleius, _Metamorphoses_, III., p. 138: “While we were thus prattling, a mutual desire invaded our minds and roused our limbs; having undressed entirely we gave ourselves up to the transports of Venus. I soon felt tired. Fotis of her own good will offered me the catamite corollary.” Martial, IX., 68: “All night long I possessed a lewd young maiden, whose complaisant demeanor it were impossible to excel. Exhausted with a thousand modes of love, I asked for the puerile service, which she granted at once before I had finished my asking.”