Among the maladies to which the _fellator_ was exposed, we have in the first place to reckon the _foul smell from the mouth_[36], which is mentioned as especially prevalent among the Romans. The Physicians as a rule derived it, if no local symptoms, of ulcers, etc., were apparent, from some fault of the stomach[37],—an instance surely where the Laity were cleverer than the Profession! The sympathy between the mouth and the genitals and anus makes it evident why at the present day we notice, particularly in immoral women, an evil smell from the mouth, which they endeavour to conceal by chewing burned coffee and the like. No doubt this was the case in Antiquity[38] as well, so we are by no means justified in attributing every instance of foul breath in harlots and cinaedi to the practice of _fellation_. Yet another consequence of _fellation_ was _pain in the mouth_ (στομαλγία, mouth-ache; only we must remember as to this that _Pollux_, Onomast. III. 7. 69., cites ἀλγεῖν,—to suffer pain, as a synonym of _to love_), _tongue-ache_ (γλωσσαλγία[39]) and _toothache_[40], and generally pains of the palate and throat, rendering voice and speech indistinct. Hence _Martial_ says[41]: Qui recitat lana fauces et colla revinctus, Hic se posse loqui, posse _tacere_ negat. (The man who reads aloud his works, his throat and neck bound about with wool, declares he cannot speak, yet cannot hold his tongue). But the evil by no means stopped here; there more often occurred as the result of the habit of _fellation_ acute no less than chronic inflammations of the palate (sore throats, quinseys). In the passage quoted a little above from _Lucian’s_ Pseudologistae, it is said of Timarchus: “In Egypt on the other hand they called you συνάγχη (sore throat),—as everybody knows.” In explanation _Lucian_ adds: “It must have been a close thing with you not to be choked, that time you came across the sailor of a three-master, who fell upon you and stopped your mouth for you.” Without in any way detracting from the importance of what we are told here, it still appears to us, on full consideration, that Timarchus was not merely a _fellator_, but an _irrumator_ as well, and this is the more probable as he no doubt acquired this nickname, because he, _bene vasatus_ (well provided with a big _member_), frequently brought on sore throat, that is to say in those who served him as _fellators_!