(But to _you_ I will do no harm; nay! rather shall my member, when your left hand has done its work and been washed, say to your grasping avarice,—now lick, fellate, me). This passage has been misunderstood by most of the commentators, because they chose to read _lana_ (woollen cloth) for _laeva_ (the left hand), or else thought to find here a reference to manustupration (masturbation with the hand). But really it means nothing more than that the poet declares he will resort to _irrumation_, after his mentula (member) has been washed with the left hand, [the Latin cannot mean this; _lotā_ is ablative case, and must be taken with _laevā_. _Transl._],—a usage to which we shall come back again subsequently; but which is at once clearly authenticated by a fragment of _Lucilius_, where we read: Laeva lacrimas mutoni absterget amica. (With the left hand his mistress wipes the tears from his penis). [97] _Galen_, Isagoge ch. 18. (edit. Kühn Vol. XIV. 779). [98] _Galen_, loco citato ch. 13. pp. 657, 758. [99] _Plato_, Phaedo p. 81 A., οἱ ἀφικομένη ὑπάρχει αὐτῇ εὐδαίμονι εἶναι, πλάνης καὶ ἀγνοιας καὶ φόβων καὶ _ἀγρίων ἐρώτων_ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κακῶν τῶν ἀνθρωπείων ἀπηλλαγμένῃ. (So having come there, the soul is in a state of assured happiness being free of error and ignorance and fear, and _fierce passions_ and the other ills of mankind). [100] _Plutarch_, De solert. anim. p. 972 D., _Ἔρωτες_ δὲ πολλῶν οἱ μὲν ἄγριοι καὶ περιμανεῖς γεγόνασιν, οἱ δὲ ἔχοντες οὐκ ἀπάνθρωπον ὡραϊσμόν. (But for the passions of many, some are naturally fierce and frantic, but there are others again that show no anti-social effeminacy). The _Etymologicum Magnum_ says: ἄγριοι οἱ παιδεράσται, ἤτοι _ὅτι ἄγριόν ἐστι τὸ πάθος_ ἡ παιδεραστία. (wild,—means the paederasts, that is, because the _passion of paederastia is a wild one_). Perhaps too the phrase of Theocritus is referable to the same: ἄγριον, ἄγριον ἕλκος ἔχει κατὰ μηρὸν Ἄδωνις (a savage, savage wound has Adonis in the thigh). [101] In _Hesychius_ occurs also the form ἀγριοψωρία (malignant itch). Whether the latter is connected with our subject, technical investigations must inform us. The passing over of Mentagra into Psora (Itch) points that way. [102] Willian, “Die Hautkrankheiten” (Skin-Diseases), transl. by F. Friese, Breslau 1794. 4to., Vol. 1. pp. 29 and 32. [103] _Paulus Aegineta_, De re Med. bk. IV. ch. 3., ἀγρίους δὲ καλοῦσι λειχήνας τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν μετρίως ξηραινόντων οὐδὲν ὀνιναμένους. ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν σφοδρῶς παροξύνοντας. (now they call _malignant lichens_ those which get no benefit from the milder siccatives, and are actually aggravated by the more violent).