The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityRosenbaum, Julius
History
The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Rosenbaum, Julius
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
_Strattis_ in “Pytisus”: τῷ στόματι δράσω
ταῦθ’ ἅπερ τοῦ αἰσχροῦ τάττεται [ταῦθ’ ἅπερ οἱ Λέσβιοι]. (with my mouth
I will do those things that are reckoned as obscene,—those things that
the Lesbians do).]
[5] Haud scio an Rhododaphnes cognomine a Syris isti tradito
tecte sugilletur cunnilingus, ita ut rosa lateat cunnus, in lauri
folio lingua lingens, (I cannot say for certain whether by the
surname of “Rhododaphne”—rose-laurel—given the man by the Syrians
it is covertly suggested he was a _cunnilingus_, as much as to say
that while a _cunnus_—female organ—is suggested by the rose, a
licking tongue is the same in the laurel-leaf), says _Forberg_, loco
citato p. 281. _Suidas_, s. v. ῥοδωνία· ἔστι μὲν ὁ τῶν ῥόδων λείμων·
ἄλλοι δὲ καὶ τὴν _ῥοδοδάφνην_ οὕτω φασὶ καλεῖσθαι (under the word
ῥοδωνία—rose-garden: it is the meadow of roses; but others again say
this is called ῥοδοδάφνη). _Pliny_, Hist. Nat. XVI. 33. _Hesychius_, s.
v. ῥοδωνία says: δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ _τὸ ἀνδρὸς αἰδοῖον_ αὕτη. (under the word
ῥοδωνία—rose-garden: this signifies also _the human genitals_).
[6] The explanation of this is to be found in the Priapeia
Carmina, 75.
_Barbatis_ non nisi _summa_ petet.
(With bearded men will touch but the extremities).
[7]_Pseudo-Galen_, Works, edit. Kühn, Vol. XIX. p. 142.
[8] Handbuch der Klinik (Hand-book of Clinical Medicine), vol.
VII. p. 88. Also at a yet earlier date in Schmidt’s Jahrbuch 1837.,
Vol. XIII. p. 101.
[9] _Στομάργου_, ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν ἐπιδημιῶν ὁ Διοσκουρίδης
οὕτως γράφει, καὶ δηλοῦσθαι φησὶ τοῦ λαλοῦντος μανικῶς· οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι
_στυμάργου_ γράφουσι καὶ ὄνομα κύριον ἀκούουσι. (_Στομάργου_: in the
second Book of the Epidemia Dioscorides writes the word thus, and says
it signifies such as talk insanely; others however write στυμάργου, and
understand it as a proper name).
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