“Menacing with his couched lance some youth (he was a determined pedicon), he would say he intended to go to Aversa, a famous town” (Aloysia Sigaea, Dialogue VII.). Footnote 58: See the “History of the Eighteenth Century”, by Christ. Dan. Voss (in German, Part V., p. 364). As to pedicons of less exalted position, of whom mention is made by the widow of Philip, first Duke of Orleans, (in her amusing letters, pp. 74, 284, 350), which appeared about thirty years ago, there are: the Cardinal de Bouillon, the Chevalier de Lorraine, the Comte de Marsan, François Louis, Prince de Conti. These together with the Comte de Varmandois, a cinede this last, must rest content to appear in a mere foot-note. Footnote 59: Do not misunderstand what I say. It is not for an honest man to sharpen his wits at the expense of another’s book. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER III OF IRRUMATION[60] TO put the member in erection into another’s mouth is called to _irrumate_, a word, which in its proper sense means to give the breast; in fact, according to _Nonius_, p. 579 (Gottfried’s edition), the Ancients called the bosom _ruma_. The verge, introduced into the mouth, wants to be tickled either by the lips or the tongue, and sucked; the party who does this service to the penis is a fellator or sucker, for with the Ancients _fellare_ meant to suck, also according to _Nonius_, p. 547. The equivalent to _fellare_ in Greek is ——. The Lesbians are believed to be the inventors of this particular nastiness. The Scholiast, in verse 1337 of the _Wasps_ of Aristophanes, cites Theopompus as vouching for the fact. This is the reason why the Greeks apply the expression “Lesbianize” or “Lesbize” to those who imitated the Lesbian usages, either as _irrumants_, or as _fellators_. Suidas: “Lesbianize—to defile the mouth; the Lesbians are in fact believed to give themselves to these shameful acts.” The same author says under the word, “_Siphnianize_,—to _Lesbianize_, that is to use the mouth abominably.”[61] Aristophanes has employed the word in the sense of _sucking_ (_Wasps_, 1337). “Look, how cleverly I kept you away, when you wanted to Lesbianize the guests.” And again in the _Frogs_ 1343: “Has this Muse never used the Lesbian mode?”[62] But Hesychius has employed it for _irrumate_: “Lesbianize, to defile a man’s mouth.” Lesbianize and Phœnicianize are generally used conjointly, as though this practice had been equally common among the Phœnicians. Lucian says in his _Apophras_ (ch. 26): “In the name of the Gods tell me what you are thinking of, when it is bruited about publicly that you Lesbianize and Phœnicianize?”