[275] _Martial_, Bk. VII. Epigram 71. [276] There still remains some doubt in our mind as to the meaning of another Epigram of _Martial’s_, Bk. IV. Epigr. 52. Gestari _iunctis_ nisi desinis, Hedyle, _capris_ Qui modo ficus eras, iam caprificus eris, (Unless you cease, Hedylus, to _go with “she-goats” in copulation_, you who were but now a fig-tree, will presently be a wild fig-tree (goat-fig)). If _capra_ (she-goat) here has the meaning of _scortum_ (common strumpet),—and it cannot very well signify anything else,—the passage is an undoubted proof that such swellings were a consequence of coition with _common_ prostitutes, and that the latter were ordinarily affected with them.—In _Petronius_, Sat. ch. 46., it is said of some one: Ingeniosus est et bono filo etiamsi in nave morbosus est. (He is of good abilities and good fibre, but he is diseased with swellings on the fundament.) _Burmann_ notes on this: In nave—id est mariscas habet. Navis est podex ficosus. Hinc dictum illud Casellii apud Quintilianum, (De Instit. Orat. VI. 3. 87.) Consultori dicenti, _navem dividere volo_, respondentis, _perdes_. (_In nave_—that is, he has swellings. Navis (literally a ship) means a fundament afflicted with swellings. Hence the _bon mot_ of Casellius, quoted in _Quintilian_. In reply to a client who said “I wish to cut (divide into shares) my ship” (navis,—means also diseased fundament), he retorted, “It’ll be fatal!”) [277] Bk. VII. Epigr. 34. _Persius_, Satir. I. 33., Hic aliquis—Rancidulum quiddam balba de nare locutus. (Hereupon some one spoke something offensive through stuttering nose—in a stuttering nasal voice). _Sidonius Apollinaris_, Epist. bk. IX., Orationem salebrosas passam iuncturas per cameram volutatam balbutire. (To stammer out through the palate’s vault all a-tremble a speech where the periods are joltingly united). [278] _Joannes Jac. Reiske_, and _Joannes Ern. Faber_, “Opuscula medica ex monumentis Arabum et Ebraeorum,” (Medical Tracts—from Arabic and Hebrew Writings), edit. _Ch. G. Gruner_. Halle 1776. 8vo., p. 61 Note: Ita tamen miror, ab antiquitatis patronis argumentum inde allatum non fuisse, quod veterum cinaedi passi fuerint in naribus et in palato vitium, a quo clare non potuerint eloqui, sed ῥέγχειν, stertere et rhonchissare debuerint. Cf. diserta sed acris oratio Dionis Chrysostomi Tarsica prior etc. (Yet I wonder at this, that the advocates of its antiquity have not drawn an argument from the fact that among the Ancients the _cinaedi_ suffered from an affection of the nose and palate, that prevented their speaking distinctly, and made them ῥέγχειν, snore and snort, Comp. the eloquent, but censorious, Speech of the Rhetor Dio Chrysostom, First Tarsica, etc.) _Gruner_ in his Antiq. Morborum (Antiquity of Diseases), p. 77., likewise cited this reference, but it appears without having personally compared the passages with precision.