Which explanation the reader will choose, we must really leave to him, for interpretations of words of this sort can never be brought to the absolute test of evidence, inasmuch as nick-names as a rule take their origin only too often in external circumstances. Still this much we think we may pronounce with certainty, that the words of the Gloss have to do simply _de rebus venereis_, with matters of love, and not with Venereal complaints, and thus Naumann’s propositions[33] at least are devoid of foundation. Perhaps it may be possible by means of a comparison of the licentious representations on old Vases, of which the late _Hofrath_ Böttiger would seem to have possessed a choice collection, and some examples of which are preserved also at Berlin, in connection with one or other of the words given in the Gloss, as generally with the embodiments in Art of the _Venus ebria_ (drunken Venus), to afford a better explanation, one that may indeed be of no particular value to the student of Antiquity pure and simple, but nevertheless is indispensable to the Physician for the correct understanding of sundry diseases of the Ancients, or at any rate one sufficient to avoid incorrect assertions and false conclusions, and to refute such. We are not in a position to give a systematic history of the spread of the vice of the _fellator_ and _irrumator_; but at any rate this much is certain that in Imperial times the Vice was most widely indulged in, as the Epigrams of _Martial_, and what _Suetonius_ relates in his Life of Tiberius (chs. 44, 45.) sufficiently bear witness. Diseases of the Fellator. § 22.