(Homer taught you to utter your voice and speak whole words, but, pray! who taught you to have your tongue in a hole?) Here ὀπὴ (hole) obviously stands for the female organ,—a meaning omitted in the Lexicons. [81] So too in the following Epigram of _Ausonius_ (127.), Eune, quod uxoris gravidae _putria inguina_ lambis, Festinas glossas non natis tradere natis. (Eunus, you lick the flabby organs of your pregnant wife; is it you are in a hurry to give learned explanations to your babes unborn?) we should explain the _putria inguina_ not so much as _rotten_, _ulcerous_, but rather as _laxata_ or _laxa_ (relaxed, flabby). Similarly _Horace_, Epod. VIII. 7., speaks of _mammae putres_ (the flabby dugs) of an old woman. [82] _Martial_, IX. 63., Ad coenam invitant omnes te, Phoebe, cinaedi: Mentula quem pascit, non, puto, purus homo est. (All the _cinaedi_, Phoebus, invite you to dinner: a man the penis feeds is not, I think, a _clean_ man). _Petronius_, Sat., Non taces, nocturne percussor, qui ne tum quidem, quum fortiter faceres, cum _pura muliere_ pugnasti. (Silence, stabber by night, who not even when you were at your best, ever faced _a clean woman_). [83] _Martial_, Bk. IV. Epigr. 43. [84] _Persius_, Satir. V. 186-188. [85] _Wendelinus Hock de Brackenau_ entitled his Treatise on the Venereal Disease: _Mentagra_, sive Tractatus de causis, praeseruatis, regimine et cura Morbi Gallici, vulgo Mala Francosz., etc., (Mentagra, or a Treatise on the Causes, Preventives, Treatment and Cure of the so called French Disease, etc.). Strasburg 1514. 4to. _Sartorius_ Frid. praes. _Conrad. Johrenio_, Diss. de mentagra ad loc. Plinii Secundi hist. nat. lib. XXVI. cap. 1. (Dissertation on mentagra in connexion with the passage of Pliny Secundus’ Hist. Naturalis bk. XXVI. ch. 1.). Frankfurt-on-Oder N. D. 49 pp. 4to. Gives a sort of exegesis of the passage, speaks in first place of new diseases in general, passes on to the Venereal Disease, the antiquity of which the author upholds, and finally discusses Mentagra, which he holds to be a leprous-syphilitic affection. The work is still quite worth reading, more especially as the author quotes some passages from the Chronicle of _Anhalt von Beckmann_, at that time still unprinted, and which we find mentioned hardly anywhere else. [86] _Hensler_, “Vom abendländischen Aussatze im Mittelalter”, (On Occidental Leprosy in the Middle Ages). Hamburg 1790. pp. 67, 206, 307. [87] _Pliny_, Hist. Nat. Bk. XXVI. chs. 1, 2, 3. [88] _Galen_, De comp. med. secundum locos, edit. Kühn Vol. XII. p. 841. προσχαριζόμενον τῇ ἐξωτάτῳ γραμμῇ τοῦ λειχῆνος μικρόν τι τῶν ἀπαθῶν σωμάτων. (giving up to the external mark of the scab yet another small part of the bodies hitherto unaffected).