Can anyone believe such a vice as this was practised without incurring punishment? Yet there prevails amongst the Physicians of Antiquity, even including Galen, who knew the facts, an unbroken silence. It is impossible to suppose that girls and women could have their genital organs purged in this mode altogether without evil results, more particularly as actual experience in more modern times has proved that as a consequence of the habit of _cunnilingere_ inflammations of the external genitals have been set up in girls, as well as ulcerations in older women through the licking of these parts by dogs. Among Ancient writers we have found no vouchers for this; but on the other hand several such exist to show the mischief that results from the habit to the _cunnilingue_ himself. Excluding from consideration the _pale complexion_[77] and evil _smell from the mouth_, which were equally consequences of the other forms of vice already mentioned, we have _paralysis of the tongue_ mentioned, at any rate in one passage[78]: Sidere percussa est subito tibi, Zoile, lingua, Dum lingis. Certe, Zoile, nunc futuis. (Your tongue, Zoilus, has been stricken with a sudden doom, while in the act of licking. Why! surely, Zoilus, you copulate now). True this malady must be counted as one of very rare occurrence; but this is by no means the case with the ulcerations, which would seem not always to have confined their attacks to the tongue, but to have extended also, just as with the _fellator_, to the other parts of the mouth as well. This cannot but have had the effect of making it very difficult in diagnosis to distinguish between an affection of the sort due to _fellation_ and one due to the vice of the _cunnilingue_. Here again it is _Martial_ to whom we are indebted for the proofs of our assertions. He leaves no room for doubt as to the way Manneius was punished for his debauchery in the following passage[79]: _Lingua maritus, moechus ore Manneius,_ _Summoenianis inquinatior buccis:_ Quem cum fenestra vidit a Suburrana Obscoena nudum lena, fornicem claudit, Mediumque mavult basiare, quam summum: Modo qui _per omnes viscerum tubos_ ibat, Et voce certa consciaque dicebat: Puer, an puella matris esset in ventre; (Gaudete cunni, vestra namque res acta est!) _Arrigere linguam non potest fututricem Nam, dum tumenti mersus haeret in vulva_[80] Et vagientes intus audit infantes, _Partem gulosam solvit indecens morbus; Nec purus esse nunc potest, nec impurus._