Manual of Classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris)
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Manual of Classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris)
Erotic literature; Sex customs -- Greece; Sex customs -- Rome
Footnote 78:
Suetonius: “A picture of Parrhasius, representing Atalanta in the act
of complacently lending her mouth to Meleager was bequeathed to him
with the alternative that he might have a million sesterces instead,
if the subject offended him. He not only preferred the picture, but
had it solemnly hung in his bedroom.” (_Tiberius_, ch. 44.)
Footnote 79:
Horace, _Epode_ VIII., 17-20:
“The member of the uneducated is it less rigid? does it not long,
like those of lettered men? To make it stand superbly from the
groin, you need but to work it with your mouth.”
Footnote 80:
Martial, II., 62:
“A doubtful down did scarcely deck your cheek, when your tongue
already licked men’s middle parts.” The same III., 81:
“Baeticus, you, a Gaul, what have you to do with the female pit?
that tongue of yours should lick men’s middles.”
Ausonius, _Epigr._ CXX:
“When Castor longed in vain to lick men’s middles, but could take
no one home with him, he found means not to lose all pleasure of
the sort, fellator as he was; he started to lick his own wife’s
organs.” In other words from being a _fellator_ Castor became a
_cunnilingue_.
Footnote 81:
Martial, III., 88:
“They are twin brothers, but they suck different teats: tell me
are they more unlike or like?”
The one was a _fellator_, the other a _cunnilingue_.
Again, VII., 54:
“You shall suck not mine, which is honest and small, but a member
escaped from the fire of Solyma’s city and condemned to tribute.”
I do not know whence Scioppius (_Priap._ X), has it, that Martial was
well furnished; the latter avows in that passage, that his mentula was
quite small. To affront Chrestus, he orders him to lick, not his, but
the mentula of a Jewish slave. He has mentioned this Jewish slave
already in _Epigr._ 34 of the same book:
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