“Ligella, do you pluck your old affair, and stir the ashes of your burnt-out fire?” Refinements such as those are for young maidens; you are in error if you think that thing a vulva that a man’s member will no longer recognize.” The depilation of the vulva was also used as a punishment. Aristophanes, _Thesmophoriazusae_, 545, 6. “We will pluck her pubis, and teach her so, woman as she is, not to speak ill of women.” The same punishment was inflicted upon adulterous women taken in the act; a black radish or a mullet was introduced into her anus, which was then depilated, as well as her pubis, with burning cinders. Aristophanes, _Clouds_, 1079: “What, must you suffer the empalement with the radish, and the hot cinders?” Suetonius, under the word ——: “Thus they treated adulteresses who had been caught in the act: they took black radishes and planted them in their anus, which they rubbed with hot cinders, after having torn out the hair.” Footnote 28: To understand this, the sentence must be complete; the worthy Forberg takes his readers far too learned; Mania, in the poem of Machon, says to Demetrius, offering her buttocks: “Son of Agamemnon, it is now _your_ turn to have them,—you who have ever been so liberal with your own.” (Note of the translator.) Footnote 29: The following is the passage from Machon, as quoted by Athenaeus; without a knowledge of it Forberg’s allusion remains obscure: “... Demophon, Sophocles’ minion, when still a youth had Nico, already old and surnamed the she-goat; they say she had very fine buttocks. One day, he begged of her to lend them to him. ‘Very well,’ she said with a smile,—‘Take from me, dear, what you give to Sophocles.’” (Note of the translator.) Footnote 30: _Secta_, sect (from _sequor_) may also be derived from _secare_, to cut, and thus mean: laceration. (Note of the translator.) Footnote 31: Justinus tells the tale somewhat differently: “Pausanias had had to undergo since his puberty the violence of Attalus, who added to this indignity a crying outrage: having invited him to a feast and made him drunk, he not only satisfied upon him, when full of wine, his brutal lust, but allowed him to be used by all the guests like a vile courtesan, and made him the laughing stock of his equals. Unable to bear this infamy, Pausanias carried his complaint before Philip many and many a time, but the King always put him off with illusory promises. When Pausanias however saw Attalus elevated to the rank of the Chief of the Army, his fury turned against Philip, and the vengeance which he could not take upon his enemy, he took upon the iniquitous judge.” (IX., 6). Footnote 32: