“My slave carries a heavy Jewish parcel without skin to cover it.” That means his member is circumcized, the gland being uncovered, without prepuce, in one word, “recutitus.” So, I think, is to be understood the _recutitorum inguine virorum_ of Martial, VII., 29: he means, “the virile parts of circumcized men,” the skin of whose glands is drawn back. _Recutitus_ stands for _recinctus_, _regelatus_, _reseratus_. Many other words, _e.g._ revincire, similarly admit of two meanings, and thus, no doubt should arise about Martial’s expression: _recutita colla mulae_ (IX., 58), which refers to the mules having a new skin covering their necks. I differ from those who think that those were called _recutiti_ whose prepuce began to grow again; a _recutitus_ was to the Romans an object of contempt. Petronius: “He has two faults, else he would be like any other man _recutitus est et sertit_. He is circumcized and snores” (_Satyr._, ch. 28). It is impossible to suppose the _glans_ could have been thought more disgusting covered by a new prepuce than with none at all. Footnote 82: A man that is being irrumated cannot speak, his mouth being obstructed by the mentula, thus: he is silent. Martial, III., 96 says to Gargilius, a _cunnilingue_, menacing him with the third punishment, if he should catch him in the fact: “If I should catch thee at it, Gargilius, I’ll make thee silent.” Married men were in the habit of pedicating beardless adults, and of irrumating the bearded ones. For which reason Martial warns Gallus (II., 47) to shun the seductions of a famous rakish lady, as he was running the risk, if taken by the husband in flagrante delicto, of being irrumated by him: “Your buttocks you rely on? But the husband is no pederast; he likes but two ways, either mouth or vulva.” And for the same reason he consents to _marry_ Thelesina (II., 49): “No Thelesina for me as my wife! Why?—She is a prostitute. Nay! but she pays young lads. Then I consent.” Then there is a complaint for having been deceived with respect to the lover of Polla, his mistress (X., 40): “Constantly was I told that my Polla was on intimate terms with an unknown cinede. Well, I surprise them, Lupus; no cinede was he.” Instead of a lad, whom he would have pedicated, he finds a cool, experienced gallant, not at all likely to expiate his crime by means of his buttocks. Martial might, however, have punished him more cruelly by forcing into his fundament, either a mullet (Juvenal, X., 317): “There are adulterers whom the mullet pierces”; or a radish. “In Armenia, taken in the act of adultery, he ran away plugged with a radish in his posteriors.” (Lucian, _De Morte Peregrini_,—Works, vol. VII., p. 425.) Catullus XV., 18, 19: “Drawing your feet asunder, your postern wide open, they will insert into you radish and mullet.”