He was so glad to have won Transalpine Gaul that he could not help announcing some days after in the Senate, that he had reached the fulfillment of his wishes, in spite of the hatred and malice of his enemies, and that he defied them to their face. Somebody having said to him offensively that this could not so easily be done with a woman, he replied jokingly, that Semiramis had gained a kingdom, and the Amazons had occupied a great part of Asia (Suetonius, _Caesar_, ch. 22). Caesar employed the expression: “defying to the face” in the honest sense, while his adversary invested it with an obscene signification, in allusion to his infamous acts in Bithynia. Footnote 72: I speak of those whose abominable lasciviousness and execrable lust do not even spare the head. (Lactantius, _Instit. Div._ VI., 23.) Similarly Juvenal, VI., v. 299, 300: “For what cares the drunken Venus? She knows not the difference between groin and head.” Footnote 73: Martial, II., 72: “They say Posthumus, that they did to you last night, at supper, what I would not have let them do;—who could approve such doings? They split your mouth! ...” Then playing upon the words rumour and irrumate he adds: “... As the author of this crime, the town’s rumour designates Caecilius.” And again III., 73, _ibid._: “Rumour denies you are a Cinede.” III., 80: “Rumour says, you have an evil tongue.” And III., 87: “Rumour says, Chioné, that your vulva is intact, that nothing could be purer than it. Yet you bathe without covering the thing that should be covered; if you have any shame, then put your drawers upon your face.” _Percidere_ employed alone means to pedicate. _Martial_ IV., 48; VII., 61; IX., 48; XI., 29; XII., 35; and _Priapeia_, XII., XIV. Some copies have _praecidere_ for _percidere_, but this seems to be an untenable reading. Footnote 74: _Martial_, XI., 47: “Why do you plague in vain unhappy vulvas and posteriors; gain but the heights, for there any old member revives.” _Priapeia_ LXXV.: “Through the middle of boys and girls travels the member; when it meets bearded chins then it aspires to the heights.” Footnote 75: _Priapeia_ XXVII.: “A footlong amulet will pedicate you; if that will not cure you, I go higher.” Footnote 76: Plautus, in the _Amphytrion_, I sc. 1, 192: “I shall compress to-day the wicked tongue.” The Latins employed the verb “compress” for _irrumate_, as if it were a form of fornication; and similarly “split open”, as if it were a form of pedication. Footnote 77: Plutarch: “It is reported that in the night before the passing of the Rubicon, Caesar had a frightful dream; he dreamt that he was indulging in abominable intercourse with his mother.” (_Lives_, _Julius Cæsar_, XXXII.) Hesychius’ interpretation refers to this:—to perform abominable acts.”