[84] _Diodorus Siculus_, Bk. IV. ch. 4., says of Bacchus: He had a tender body and was extremely effeminate; his beauty distinguished him above all others, and his temper was strongly inclined to voluptuousness. On his progresses he used to take with him a crowd of women, etc. _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag. Bk. II. ch. 2., Ὀργῶσι γοῦν ἀναιδέστερον ἀναξέοντες οἴνου, καὶ οἰδοῦσι μαστοί τε καὶ μόρια, προκηρύσσοντες ἤδη πορνείας εἰκόνα. (So they revel shamelessly being full of wine, and breasts and members swell, showing forth already an image of harlotry). Sufficiently noteworthy is the following passage from _Augustine_, De Civit. Dei bk. VI. ch. 4., Liberum a liberamento appellatum volunt, quod mares a coeundo per eius beneficium emissis seminibus liberentur; hoc idem in feminis agere _Liberam_ quam etiam Venerem putant, quod et ipsas perhibeant semina emittere et ob hoc Libero eamdem virilis corporis partem in templo poni, femineam Liberae. (The name of Liber (Bacchus) they derive from _liberamentum_, the act of freeing, because males in the act of coition are freed by his aid when the seed is emitted; the same function they consider Libera, who is identified with Venus, to perform for women, because they say that women also emit seed, and that for this reason that same part of the male body is consecrated to Liber in his temple, and the corresponding female part to Libera). [85] Juno was not merely the Patron goddess of the birth-hour, but also of fornication. Comp. _Dousa_, Praecidan. pro Tibullo, ch. 18.—Politian, Miscell. ch. 89. Hence also “filles de joies” used to swear by Juno, as we see from Tibullus, Bk. III. Eleg. 4., Esto perque suos fallax iuravit ocellos, Junonemque suam, perque suam Venerem, (Be it so, she said, and the deceiver sware it by her own eyes, and by Juno and by Venus, her patron goddesses). Bk. IV. Eleg. 18., Haec per sancta tuae Junonis nomina iuro, Quae sola ante alios est mihi magna Deos. (This by the holy divinity of Juno, thy goddess, I swear, who alone before other deities is great in my eyes); and also from _Petronius_, who (Satir. ch. 25.) makes a “fille de joie” declare: Junonem meam iratam habeam, si unquam meminerim virginem fuisse (Juno my patron goddess be wroth with me, if ever I remember to have been a maid). According to _Lucian_, De Syra Dea ch. 16., Bacchus dedicated to Juno noverca (stepmother) divers Phalli. [86] The Greeks used to make little figures of men with big genitals of wood, which they called Νευρόσπαστα (figures moved by strings, puppets). _Lucian_, De Syra Dea ch. 16. _Herodotus_, II. 48. _Diodorus_, I. 88.—_Hesychius_ says: νάνος· ἐπὶ τῶν μικρῶν· ὡς νάνον καὶ αἰδοῖον ἔχοντα μέγα· οἱ γοῦν νάνοι μεγάλα ἔχουσιν αἰδοῖα, (_dwarf_: applied to the undersized; dwarf, but having large private parts. Dwarfs _do_ have large private parts). Which reminds us of the unhappy “cretins” with monstrous generative organs, who are notoriously passionate Onanists (Masturbators) also.