_de Ballu_, and others agree in this rendering. [320] De special legib., Opera Vol. II. p. 304. [321] _Ovid_, Metamorphos., bk. X. 238. [322] _Ovid_, Metamorphos., bk. X. 298.—_Servius_ on Virgil, Eclog. X. 18. _Fulgentius_, Mytholog. III. 8. [323] _Ausonius_, Epigr. C., De Hermaphrodito Mercurio genitore satus, genetrice Cythere, Nominis ut mixti, sic corporis Hermaphroditus, Concretus sexu, sed non perfectus, utroque: Ambiguae Veneris, neutro potiundus amori. (Of Hermaphroditus.—Born of Mercury as sire, of Cythera as mother, Hermaphroditus, at once of compound name and compound body, combined of either sex, but complete in neither; a being of ambiguous love, that can enjoy the joys of neither passion.) [324] Orat contra Alcibiad., I. p. 550., οἱ μὲν πολλοὶ αὐτῶν ἡταιρήκασιν. (the majority of them have become prostitutes.) Comp. _Meier_, loco citato p. 173., who in another place, p. 154 note 79., has authenticated the meaning of ἑταιρεῖν (to be a hetaera, prostitute, used of men, viz. to submit the body for pay to another to violate.) [325] “De morbis acutis et chronicis, lib. VIII.” (On acute and chronic Diseases—8 Books.) edit. Amman. Amsterdam 1722. 4to. Chronic Diseases, Bk. IV. ch. 9. In this book diseases of the intestinal canal are treated, and immediately preceding the subject of Worms. So the vice must have been regarded as if it were a disease of the rectum, though the author says it had its origin in a mental derangement. Comp. _C. Barth_, Adversar., bk. IV. ch. 3., bk. XLIII. ch. 21, bk. XLVIII. ch. 3., bk. XXIII. ch. 2. bk. XIII. ch. 13., where several emendations are to be found of the corruptions of the text. [326] Tribades dictae a τρίβω, frico, _frictrices_, sunt quibus ea pars naturae muliebris, quam clitoridem vocant, in tantam magnitudinem excrescit, ut possint illa pro mentula vel ad futuendum vel ad paedicandum uti. “Tribades”, so called from τρίβω,—I rub, _women that rub_, are such as have that portion of the woman’s parts which is called the clitoris grown to a size so excessive that they can use it as a penis whether for fornicating or for paederastia. So says Forberg, loco citato p. 345. Comp. _Hesychius_ ἑταιρίστριαι τριβάδες (lewd women, _tribades_.) The Lesbian women were especially notorious for it. _Lucian_, Dialog. meretr. 5., τοιαύτας (ἑταιριστρίας) ἐν Λέσβῳ λέγουσι γυναῖκας, ὑπὸ ἀνδρῶν μὲν οὐκ ἐθελούσας αὐτὸ πάσχειν, γυναιξὶ δὲ αὐτὰς πλησιαζούσας, ὥσπερ ἄνδρας. (such women—_tribades_, they say there are in Lesbos, who will not suffer it from men, but themselves go with women, as if they were men). But we must beware of connecting the word λεσβιάζειν (the act the Lesbian) with this; it means something quite different, as we shall see later on. The Milesian women were skilled _Tribades_, employing an artificial penis made of leather, which was called by the Greeks ὄλισβος. Aristophanes, Lysistrat. 108-110., οὐκ εἶδον οὐδ’ ὄλισβον ὀκταδάκτυλον, ὃς ἦν ἂν ἠμῖιν σκυτίνη ’πικουρία.