Si puer cum puellula,

Moraretur in cellula,

Felix coniunctio.

Amore sucrescente,

Pariter et medio

Avulso procul taedio,

Fit ludus ineffabilis

Membris, lacertis, labiis.


Baucis et Traso, a Latin comedy belonging in the twelfth century, presents the methods used in the Middle Ages for the amatory enticements of the male. These methods, however, have never differed in essence: whether in the fifth century in Athens, in the second B.C. in Rome, or in contemporary days.