pro Domo ch. 18., says to Sextus Clodius: _ligurris_ (you are a licker), and ch. 31. Quaere hoc ex Sexto Clodio, iube adesse, latitat omnino; sed si requiri iusseris, invenient hominem apud sororem tuam (Publii Clodii) _occultantem se capite demisso_ (Require this of Sextus Clodius, bid him appear; he lurks entirely out of sight. But if once you order him to be sought out, they will find the man at your sister’s house (Publius Clodius’s) _hiding himself with head held down_.) Comp. _Catullus_, 87. In _Martial_, Bk. IV. Epigr. 53., _canis_ is used in same sense as κύων in Greek,—apparently? Perhaps the women of Antiquity made use of dogs as well to serve as _cunnilingues_. According to _Brockhusius_ on Tibullus I. 7. 32., II. 4. 32. they were usual companions of “ladies of pleasure” at Rome, whence too _suburanae canes_ (bitches of the Subura) in _Horace_, Epod. V. 58. and _Subura vigilax_ (the watchful Subura) in _Propertius_, IV. 7. 15. During the Middle Ages at any rate such an employment of dogs was nothing unusual. This is stated by _Panormita_, Hermaph. Epigr. XXX., Epitaphium Nichinae Flandrensis, Scorti egregii:— Pelvis erat cellae in medio, qua saepe lavabar, Lambebat madidum blanda catella femur. (Epitaph on Nichette the Fleming, a famous Harlot:—There stood a basin in middle of the chamber, in which I would many a time wash myself, the while my fawning bitch-pup licked her mistress’s dripping thigh). and Epigr. XXXVII., Te viset Jannecta, sua comitante catella, Blanda canis dominae est, est hera blanda viris. (Jeannette shall visit you, her bitch-pup accompanying her; complacent is the hound to its mistress, the lady complacent to men). [57] _Galen_, De simplic. medicament. temperamentis ac facultat. Bk. X. ch. 1., edit. Kühn Vol. XII. p. 249. [58] κοπροφάγος (Excrement-Eater). To this _Martial_, bk. III. Epigr. 77., seems to allude, when he says: Nescio quod stomachi vitium secretius esse Suspicor, ut quid enim, Baetice, _saprofagis_? (I suspect there exists some secret vitiation of the stomach; else why, Baeticus, do you _eat putrid meat_?)