Gonzalvo of Cordova, according to Aloysia Sigaea (Dialogue VIII.), made similar jokes: “He also, I am sure, in spite of his age, was a great tongue-player (linguist). A pretty girl of some twenty years had to amuse him. When he wanted to put his tongue to her _juste milieu_, he declared he wanted to go to Liguria.” He could play with words upon the same matter, always implying the idea of a humid vulva, saying that he was going to Phœnicia, or to the Red Sea, or to the Salt Lake; you now understand what is meant by the Salt Lake or Salt Sea, into which Alpheus threw himself according to the epigram in the _Anthology_. Nearly related to this are the salgamas of Ausonius, of which we shall speak shortly, and the “onions swimming in putrid brine,” which the Bæticus of Martial, III., 77 devours. As it was said of the fellators that they “Phœnicized”, because they followed the example set by the Phœnicians, so probably the same word was applied to the _cunnilingues_ as loving to swim in a certain sea of Phœnician red; and, in fact, this was the case. Hesychius: “Scylax, an Erotic posture, like that assumed by Phœnicizers.” The Phœnicians assumed a certain posture, called Scylax, or _the dog_. There could be nothing better for describing the depraved action of a _cunnilingue_ than this canine epithet with regard to the posture taken for irrumating or fellation; dogs are _cunnilingues_ as anybody knows, and have been so ever since their abominable adventure which their ambassadors met with (allusion to Phaedrus’ fable). Footnote 104: Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, III., 308-12: “... Mortal woman could not survive the celestial fire; she was consumed by her spouse’s favours. The infant but half formed is torn from the mother’s womb, and, if we may believe the tale, is sown still immature in the father’s thigh, and there completes the period of gestation.” Footnote 105: This Castor is perhaps the same who, according to the statement of Ausonius (Epigram in _Professoribus Burdegalensibus_, XXII., 7) had published a book with the title _Cunctis de Regibus ambiguis_. Footnote 106: Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, XII., ch. 12: “The Costus-root has a burning taste and an exquisite smell; its berries are otherwise useless.” Footnote 107: The Cysthus, Greek **** is the private parts of a woman. Aristophanes, _Lysistrata_, v. 1160: “And a more beautiful cysthus I never saw.” Footnote 108: Pliny _Nat. Hist._, XII., ch. 12: “The leaves of the nard must be considered more minutely, for they are a principal ingredient in perfumery.” Footnote 109: