[126] _Seneca_, Nat. Quaest. bk. I. ch. 16., also says of Hostius, who had contrived magnifying mirrors for his use, in order to see himself in all positions: Et quia non tam diligenter intueri poterat, _cum compressus erat et caput merserat, inguinibusque alienis obhaeserat_, opus sibi suum per imagines offerebat, (But as he could not so accurately see, when he was shut in and had plunged down his head, and was fast to another’s private parts, under those circumstances he had his doings represented to him by pictures).—_Catullus_, LXXXIII. 7., Nam nihil est quidquam sceleris quo prodeat ultra, Non si _demisso_ se ipse voret _capite_. (For there exists no further form of wickedness that he can resort to,—not even if he devour himself _with down-pressed head_). _Propertius_, bk. II. 15. 22., Mecum habuit positum lenta puella caput, (A limber girl held her head down-pressed along with me). [127] Equum, qui nunc aries appellatur, in muralibus machinis, Epeum ad Troiam (sc. invenisse), (The horse, which now is called the ram, among engines for attacking walls, Epeus invented at Troy), says _Pliny_, Hist. Nat. bk. VII. ch. 57. (edit. Franz, Vol. III. p. 287.); similarly _Pausanias_, bk. I. ch. 23., ἵππος δούρειος μηχάνημα εἰς διάλυσιν τοῦ τείχους (a horse of wood an engine for the destruction of the wall). Further ἵππος (horse) is used as a nickname for a lewd man. The Scholiast on _Oribasius_, Collect. Med. bk. XXIV. ch. 8. in _A. Mai_, Auct. Class. e vatican. codd. edit. Vol. IV. p. 30. mentions ἵππος πύργος (horse tower), but in what sense we have not been able to decide. [128] _Mutilus_, κολοβὸς, κόλος, the special expression for beasts that have lost one or both horns. Thus _mutilus aries_ (a mutilated, hornless, ram) _Columella_ de R.R. VII. 3., _capella mutila_ (mutilated she-goat) VII. 6., _bos mutilus_ (mutilated ox) _Varro_, De ling. Lat. VIII. ch. 26. (Heindorf). [129] The Scholiast _Acro_ even in his time says on this passage: Campanum in morbum. Aut oris foeditatem aut arrogantiam. Dicuntur enim Campani foedi osse, arrogantes. Sic foeda accipiamus. Aliter, Campani, qui et Osci dicebantur ore immundi. Unde etiam Oscenos dicimus. (As to the Campanian disease, this is either foulness of mouth, or arrogance. For the Campanians are said to be foul, arrogant. So let us take it as foul. In another sense, the Campanians, who were also called Oscans are filthy of mouth. For which reason we say _Osceni_—obscene). _Lambinus_ expresses himself yet more distinctly: Campani, qui antea Osci dicebantur, habiti sunt ore impuro atque incesto; τοῦτ’ ἔστι τῷ στόματι αἰσχροποιοῦντες καὶ λεσβιάζοντες, morbum igitur animi intellige, ut Od. I. 37. (The Campanians, who were previously called Oscans, were considered of impure and abominable mouth; that is to say as acting uncleanly with the mouth or _Lesbianizing_; understand therefore a mental disease, as in Od. I. 37.). The Latin _Morbus_ is frequently so used. [130] _Homer_, Iliad XI. 233.