In fact the _fellator_ as well as the _cunnilingue_ may be called eaters of filth, as in the passage of Galen quoted previously, where both of them are called _coprophagi_ (dung-eaters). Bæticus however has only to do with the female pit; he is a _cunnilingue_, not a _fellator_. On the contrary, the lewd tongue of Tongilion (III., 84) is that of a _fellator_, not of a _cunnilingue_; for the tongue of a _cunnilingue_ plays the part of a lover, being active; while that of a _fellator_ acts the part of a prostitute, remaining passive. Sometimes for want of attention the most learned commentators are at fault in elucidating these playful passages. One of the twin brothers, who in our friend of Bilbilis (the poet Martial) (III., 88), are licking different groins, was a _cunnilingue_. The neighbor of Priapus, “by whose fault it is unhappy Landacé swears she can hardly walk, she is so enlarged,” is covertly designated as a _cunnilingue_ (_Priapeia_ LXXVIII.); yet for all that Scioppius maintains he was only a fornicator; but why should we turn away from the proper sense of the word on account of the enlarged aperture? As if the vulva could not be enlarged, or relaxed by the tongue of the _cunnilingue_ equally as much as by active co-habitation! * * * * * Tiberius Cæsar in his retreat at Capri does not seem to have disdained the voluptuousness of the _cunnilingue_. Blasted by every other kind of abomination, of what else is the Emperor accused in the Atellanian song, mentioned by Suetonius (_Tiberius_, ch. 45), which was so much applauded: “An old buck licking the vulvas of goats,” but this of being a _cunnilingue_? Do you want to see Tiberius employed at his licking? Plate XXII., in _Monuments de la vie privée des douze Césars_, represents it. So also Sextus Clodius, whom Cicero frequently reproaches with the impurity of his mouth and the obscenity of his tongue (_Pro Domo_, chs. 10 and 18; _Pro Coelio_, ch. 32), appears to us to have been a _cunnilingue_. Hence, that hit of Cicero, in his _Pro domo_, ch. 18: “My good Sextus, allow me to tell you, as you are already a good dialectician, you are also a good licker.” Certainly if he was one, he was bound to lick Clodia, the sister of Publius Clodius[102], the wife of Metellus, the woman that was intimate with all the world. Cicero, _Pro domo_, ch. 31: “Ask Sextus Clodius as to this, cite him to appear; he is keeping quite in the background. But if you will have him looked for, he will be found near your sister (he is addressing Publius Clodius), lurking somewhere with his head low.” Pay attention, pray, to this expression: “the head low,” it will soon re-appear, when we speak of the Greeks. The Greeks, in fact, felt no repugnance to the pleasure in question. _Epigrams_ LXXIV., LXXV., and LXXVI., in the _Analecta_ of Brunck, vol. III., p. 165, allude to this: LXXIV.