(Because forever scented with cassia and cinnamon and smeared with spices from the nest of the proud phoenix, you are fragrant of the leaden caskets of Niceros, you laugh at us that are unscented; I had rather even than smell sweet, not smell at all). [39] So _Euripides_, Medea 525., joins together στόμαργον γλωσσαλγίαν (busy-mouthed tongue-tiresomeness, i. e. wearisome talkativeness). [40] Perhaps there is an allusion to this in _Martial_, bk. XI. [41] _Martial_, Bk. VI. Epigr. 41. Also bk. IV. Epigr. 41., Quid recitaturus circumdas vellera collo? Conveniunt nostris auribus illa magis. (Why do you when going to read your verses aloud wind woollen wraps round your throat? The wool were better in our ears). The _tacere_ (to hold his tongue) in the first Epigram stands for _fellare_, as in _Martial_, VII. IX. 5. 96. Perhaps too the verse of Epicharmus given in _Aulus Gellius_, Noct. Attic. I. ch. 15. is applicable in this connection, οὐ λέγειν δύνατος, ἀλλὰ σιγᾷν ἀδύνατος. (Not able to speak, yet unable to be silent). Comp. _Martial_, VI. 54. VII. 48. XII. 35.—“_Harpocratem_ reddere (to recall _Harpocrates_” in _Catullus_ 74. 4.) Again _Minutius Felix_, In Octav., says: “Esse malae linguae, etiamsi _tacerent_” (To be of a _foul_ tongue, _even if they kept silence_). _Priapeia_, 27. 4., “altiora tangam” (I will touch higher things). In part we may have to look for the same allusion also in _Ausonius’_ Epigrams 46, 47 and 51, and several other very similar ones in the Anthology. [42] _Aretaeus_, De causis et signis acutorum morborum, (Of the causes and symptoms of Acute Diseases). Comp. De Curatione acut. morb., (Of the treatment of Acute Diseases), Bk. I. ch. 9. [43] _Martial_, bk. X. Epigr. 56., Non secat et tollit stillantem Fannius uvam. (Fannius does not use the knife, yet removes the dripping uvula). [44] _Martial_, Bk. IV. Epigr. 42. Bk. XI. Epigr. 14.: Urbis deliciae salesque Nili. (Darling of the City, savour of the Nile). [45] The fact that, according to _Prosper Alpin_ De Medicina Aegypt.—(Of Egyptian Medicine, Bk. I. ch. 14.), gangrenous sore-throat prevails all the year round among children in Egypt, need not prejudice our conclusion; in fact it rather helps to explain how the sore-throat brought on by _fellation_ was able so readily and quickly to assume the malignant type described. [46] _Aëtius_, Tetrab. I. Serm. IV. ch. 21. Perhaps the “Cancer oris” (cancer of the mouth) in boys, of which _Celsus_, VI. 15., makes mention, belongs to the same category. [47] _Herodotus_, Bk. II. ch. 60.