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
“Take the first syllable of _Pe_nelopé; add to it the first of
_Di_do; then to the first of _Ca_nis append the first of _Re_mus:
what they make, I will do to you, thief, if I catch you in my
garden. This is the penalty your crime will meet.”
Ausonius plays on the words _doing_ and _making_. The initials of the
Greek words _make_ a word he cannot say in Latin,—it is too indecent.
Yet Eunus has no hesitation in _doing_ it,—putting it in action.
Epigram CXXVII.:
“Eunus, when you lick the groins of your wife, she being with child;
’tis because you would be betimes in _teaching the tongues_ to your
babes yet unborn.”
You seem, he says, to send out your tongue to meet your unborn children,
and fulfilling your duty as a Grammarian, to teach them lessons of
tongue, and the interpretation of obscure terms.[109] The Manneius of
Martial, whom we have spoken of above, was also in the habit of licking
pregnant women’s privates.
Epigram CXXVIII., entitled _On the same Eunus, the Learned Licker_:
“Eunus, the little Syrian pedagogue, licker of privates, Opican
doctor (’tis Phyllis he owes his knowledge to), beholds the feminine
engine in fourfold different fashions: Opening it triangularly, he
makes it the letter Delta (Δ); seeing the pair of folds side by side
along the valley of the thighs with the line in the middle where the
slit of the vagina opens, he says it is a Psi (Ⲯ); in fact its shape
is triple-cloven then. Then when he has put his tongue in, it is a
Lambda (Λ), and he makes out therein the true design of a Phi (Φ).
Why! ignoramus, do you think you see a Rho (Ρ) written, where merely
a long Iota (Ι) should be put? Contemptible doctor, foul pedant, you
deserve the Tau (Τ) yourself; the crossed Theta (ϴ) should by rights
be put against your name.”
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