very exhaustively of this subject. [285] On account of the resemblance of its harsh, screeching note? _Reiske_ remarks on this passage: Est autem κερχνίς avis quaedam a stertendo sic dicta, vel stridore, quem edit similem iis qui stertunt. (But the κερχνίς,—hawk, is a bird so called from the snoring, or harsh note it utters, like men who snore). Comp. _Schneider_, Lexicon, under words κέρχνος and κέρχω (hoarseness, to make hoarse). [286] _Horace_, Odes II. 8., Ulla si iuris tibi peierati Poena, Barine, nocuisset unquam, Dente si nigro fieres, vel uno Turpior ungui, Crederem. (If _any_ punishment for perjured faith had ever hurt you, Barinus, if you had had but a blackened tooth, or had been disfigured in one single nail, I would believe). [287] Epistle to the Romans, Ch. I. vv. 24, 26, 27. [288] Names of noted women are given by _Martial_, bk. XI. Epigr. 95. Comp. below. p. 118. note 3. [289] Rerum Gestarum bk. XIV. ch. 19.—_Petronius_, Satir., ch. 68., says of a slave: duo tamen vitia habet, quae si non haberet, esset omnium nummorum: recutitus est et _stertit_. (Yet has he two faults, lacking which he would be a man above price: he is circumcised and he snorts.)—Terence, Eunuch., Act V. sc 1. v. 53, Fatuus et insulsus, bardus, _stertit noctes et dies_. Neque istum metuas ne amet mulier. (Foolish and silly, a stupid fellow, _he snores all night and all day_. Have no fear that a woman could love him.) [290] Bk. XII. Epigr. 87., _Paediconibus os olere_ dicis. Hoc si sic, ut ais, Fabulle, verum est, Quid tu credis olere cunnilingis? (You say paederasts’ breath smells foul. If what you allege is true, Fabullus, what sort of a breath think you have _cunnilingi_?—_cunnilingi_, i. e. illi qui pudenda mulierum lingunt, men who lick women’s private parts).