As was the case with irrumation, so with even more reason the licking of women’s privates was particularly adopted by old men, whose tool will not raise its head[113]. Aloysia Sigaea, Dialogue VII., says: “He (Gonzalvo of Cordova), was likewise a mighty _cunnilingue_ by reason of his great age.” “Why does Blatara lick? because he cannot manage otherwise.” The same author, VI., 26: “Lotades has lost the power of stiffening; so licks.” And again, XII., 88: “Thirty young boys you have at command, and as many girls; yet you have only one member, and that will not rise. What then will you do?” Lick, no doubt, as we are told Linus did, in _Epigr._ XI., 25: “This too frisky mentula, Linus, so well known to girls in plenty, will longer stand; so mind your tongue.” Sextillus (Martial, II., 28), was in all probability also a _cunnilingue_: “Have your laugh at those, Sextillus, that call you cinede, and show them your middle finger[114]. You are not, Sextillus, a pedicon nor yet a fornicator, nor does Vetustilla’s burning mouth tempt you.—You are none of these, I allow, Sextillus; then what are you? I know not, but remember! there are two sorts yet.” Two sorts are still left for Sextillus, to suck the virile member and to lick the vulva, while he is neither a fornicator, nor a cinede, nor a pedicon, nor an irrumator. Which did he choose to be? This we are not told. Eunuchs, just as impotent as aged men, adopt the practice for the same reason.[115] Gregory Nazianzen says in his funeral sermon on Basil the Great: “They of the gynaeceum, those men, who amongst women are men, and amongst men women; who have nothing virile about them but their impiety; those that cannot give themselves up to voluptuousness in the natural way, have recourse to their tongue as their only alternative.” The _cunnilingues_ exhaled an evil smell from the mouth, and their kisses were as much shunned as those of _fellators_. Martial, XII., 87: “You say the mouths of pedicons smell badly; if this is true, Fabullus, as you say, tell me! what think you of the breath of _cunnilingues_?” And the same, XII., 59: “The neighbors kiss you every one, from the bearded cowherd, whose kisses have flavor of the he-goat, down to the _fellator_ and the _cunnilingue_ fresh from his business.” _Cunnilingues_ and _fellators_ are compared to he-goats by Catullus (XXXVII.), on account of their fetid breath: “Think you you alone have members, that you alone are entitled to satisfy women, and may consider all other men he-goats?”