(Let them plant the thyrsus (Bacchic staff) in the garden-plat of Cupid). Similarly _Lucretius_, Bk. IV. 1100., says, ut muliebria conserat arva, (to sow the woman’s seed-fields), and _Virgil_, Georgics III. 136., speaks of, genitali arvo, (the seed-field of generation). Possibly in this direction may be found a better interpretation of the, irriguo nihil est elutius horto, (There is nought more insipid than a new-watered garden), of _Horace_, Satires Bk. II. 4. 16. The Greeks used in the same way their word κῆπος (garden), e. g. _Diogenes Laertius_, II. 12, and _Hesychius_ explains it by τὸ ἐφήβιον γυναικεῖον (the female organ of puberty). Similarly in _Aristophanes_ καλὸν ἔχουσα τὸ πεδίον, (having the plain beautiful). The Koran also says, Thy Wife is thy field! [90] “Apologie pour Herodote,” (Defence of Herodotus), II., 253. [91] _Strabo_, bk. XIII. 588. [92] _Lucian_, De Dea Syra, § 28., relates that at Hieropolis there was a Phallus 180 or 1800 feet in size. [93] _Creuzer_, Symbolik, Bk. II. p. 85.—_de Wette_, Archäologie, § 233 k.—_Wiener_, Biblisches Realwörterbuch. 2nd. ed. Leipzig 1833., Vol. I. p. 139. Article, _Baal_; and p. 260. Article, _Chamos_. [94] Numbers, Ch. 23. v. 28. Deuteronomy, Ch. 4, v. 46. [95] _Jonathan_, on Numbers Ch. 25. v. I. Might one draw attention to the old Greek πέος (the penis), which is found in _Aristophanes_ and _Antipater_,—p. 72. Note 2. loco citato? The adjective πεοίδης (πεώδης) is given in _Eustathius_ according to _Schneider_, in the sense: with thick, swollen member; and _Rodigin_, Lect. Antiq. Bk. VIII. ch. 6. p. 377, says: Postremo qui ex intemperanti Veneris usu pereunt, dicuntur _Peolae_, media producta, quia Peos signet pudendum, sive veretrum, (Lastly those who are undone by excessive indulgence in Love are called _Peolae_, with the middle vowel long, because _Peos_ means the private, or privy, member. Possibly the old form was πέορ, just as sometimes πόϊρ stands for πάϊς in the Laconian dialect. Moreover _Penis_ might surely more readily be derived from πέος than from what is commonly given as its derivation, _pendendo_ (because it hangs), in as much as the parts of the body are named from the condition of their activity, not of their rest. Thus Baal-_Peor_ would be “Lord of the Penis”! ἄναξ Πρίηπος (King Priapus). [96] _Lintschotten_, “Orientalische Reisen,” (Eastern Travels), Pt I. ch. 33.—_Beyer_ on _Seldens_, Syntagm. de Diis Syris, p. 235. perhaps the Greeks called the penis also κτείς on this account,—κτεὶς from κτέω, I cleave!