Catamite according to Festus, is the same thing as Ganymede, the minion of Jupiter; the Latins, by similar corruption of words, pronounced _Proserpina_ for _Persephone_, _Aesculapius_ for _Asclepios_, _Carthago_ for _Carchedo_, _Pollux_ for _Polydeukes_, _Sybilla_ for _Siobulé_, _masturbare_ for _manu stuprare_. Footnote 22: Thus Oenothea, to excite the lad’s feeble nerve, pushes a leathern mentula (member) into Eucolpius’ anus (Petronius, 138): “Oenothea fetches a leathern contrivance; this she first oiled and sprinkled with pepper and crushed nettle-seeds, and then proceeded to push little by little up my anus.” We shall have to speak in chapter VI of another use of these leathern tools. Footnote 23: According to the author of the _Gynaeology_ (German edition, vol. III., p. 392) there are to be found at this day in the London brothels women who make it their business to flagellate customers who desire it. Footnote 24: In order to appease the ardours of the anus, the Siphnians (Siphnos, one of the Cyclades) were in the habit of introducing a finger up the anus. The Greeks called this proceeding to _siphnianize_. Suidas: _Siphnianize_,—to finger the posterior. Footnote 25: Always, however, excepting the head, for they took great care of their head of hair. Horace, Ode X., book IV., says to Ligurinus: “When those curls are gone, that now descend to your shoulders....” And (Epode XI., v. 40-43): “Nothing”, he says, “will take away his love for Lyciscus, save another love for a plump youth, tying up his long hair.” In the same sense Martial speaks of _Capillati_ (III., 58; II., 57), and of _Comati_ (XII., 99). Footnote 26: To depilate one’s armpits was, however considered as being necessary to the cleanliness of the body: “One man keeps himself tidy, another neglects himself more than is right; one man depilates his legs, another does not depilate even his armpits.” (Seneca, letter CXIV.) Footnote 27: The Greeks did not disdain this strange practice any more than the Romans. Aristophanes, in the _Lysistrata_ (v. 89). “My affair will be tidy with the couchgrass pluck’d off.” In the “Frogs” he speaks of dancing girls barely arrived at puberty beginning to tear off the fur” (v. 519); in the _Thesmophoriazusae_ again there is mentioned “a _mons Veneris_ plucked clean” (v. 719). That the Greeks preferred a bare pubis to a furred one, though we may be of a different opinion, is apparent from another passage of Aristophanes, in the _Lysistrata_, v. 151, 2, where a smooth pubis is represented as a chief incitement to virile ardour: “If we were to go naked with a smooth pubis, our husband’s members would stand, and they would be fain to have us.” As to old women, they likewise denuded their pubis of the bristles in order to appear less decrepit. Martial, X., 90.