“... Do you think I dare not irrumate alone, as I stand here, two hundred pothouse-heroes?” And he adds that he would write on the front of the tavern the infamy of these blackguards: “... Your names I shall chalk up all over the tavern’s front.” Other passages of Catullus, XXI., 12, and LXXIV., 5, are also quoted to prove the various employment of the word _irrumate_; but they do not seem to me to bear upon the question. The epithet _shameless_ was especially given to the man who allowed himself to be pedicated or irrumated. _Priapeia_ LIX.: “If you come to steal, you will return _shameless_.” Cicero, _De Oratore_, II., 257: “If you are _shameless_ before and behind....” Horace, _Epistle_, I., xvi., 36: “If he calls me a thief, he denies that I am chaste.” Lampridius, _Commodus_, ch. 10: “Already as a child he was a glutton and _shameless_, which is explained by what he says in ch. 5: “He gave himself up to the infamous abuses of young men and to their assaults”, and ch. i: “From his tenderest age he was depraved, mischievous, cruel, a libertine; he allowed his mouth to be soiled and defiled.” On the other hand, a woman who had never submitted to a man, was called _chaste_ (_Priapeia_ XXXI.): “You are allowed to be as chaste as Vesta;” The same epithet was given to a wife that was faithful to her husband such a one as is praised by Martial in _Epigr._ X., 63. “My couch is lighted by the rarest glory,—one member, one mentula alone has known my chastity.” To the preceding examples of _fellators_ and _fellatrices_ we will now add, from Aloysia Sigaea’s book, that of Crisogono, who cleverly persuades Sempronia to lend him her mouth: