Concretus sexu, sed non perfectus, utroque:
Ambiguae Veneris, neutro potiundus amori.
(Of Hermaphroditus.—Born of Mercury as sire, of Cythera as mother, Hermaphroditus, at once of compound name and compound body, combined of either sex, but complete in neither; a being of ambiguous love, that can enjoy the joys of neither passion.)
[324] Orat contra Alcibiad., I. p. 550., οἱ μὲν πολλοὶ αὐτῶν ἡταιρήκασιν. (the majority of them have become prostitutes.) Comp. Meier, loco citato p. 173., who in another place, p. 154 note 79., has authenticated the meaning of ἑταιρεῖν (to be a hetaera, prostitute, used of men, viz. to submit the body for pay to another to violate.)
[325] “De morbis acutis et chronicis, lib. VIII.” (On acute and chronic Diseases—8 Books.) edit. Amman. Amsterdam 1722. 4to. Chronic Diseases, Bk. IV. ch. 9. In this book diseases of the intestinal canal are treated, and immediately preceding the subject of Worms. So the vice must have been regarded as if it were a disease of the rectum, though the author says it had its origin in a mental derangement. Comp. C. Barth, Adversar., bk. IV. ch. 3., bk. XLIII. ch. 21, bk. XLVIII. ch. 3., bk. XXIII. ch. 2. bk. XIII. ch. 13., where several emendations are to be found of the corruptions of the text.
[326] Tribades dictae a τρίβω, frico, frictrices, sunt quibus ea pars naturae muliebris, quam clitoridem vocant, in tantam magnitudinem excrescit, ut possint illa pro mentula vel ad futuendum vel ad paedicandum uti. “Tribades”, so called from τρίβω,—I rub, women that rub, are such as have that portion of the woman’s parts which is called the clitoris grown to a size so excessive that they can use it as a penis whether for fornicating or for paederastia. So says Forberg, loco citato p. 345. Comp. Hesychius ἑταιρίστριαι τριβάδες (lewd women, tribades.) The Lesbian women were especially notorious for it. Lucian, Dialog. meretr. 5., τοιαύτας (ἑταιριστρίας) ἐν Λέσβῳ λέγουσι γυναῖκας, ὑπὸ ἀνδρῶν μὲν οὐκ ἐθελούσας αὐτὸ πάσχειν, γυναιξὶ δὲ αὐτὰς πλησιαζούσας, ὥσπερ ἄνδρας. (such women—tribades, they say there are in Lesbos, who will not suffer it from men, but themselves go with women, as if they were men). But we must beware of connecting the word λεσβιάζειν (the act the Lesbian) with this; it means something quite different, as we shall see later on. The Milesian women were skilled Tribades, employing an artificial penis made of leather, which was called by the Greeks ὄλισβος. Aristophanes, Lysistrat. 108-110.,
οὐκ εἶδον οὐδ’ ὄλισβον ὀκταδάκτυλον,
ὃς ἦν ἂν ἠμῖιν σκυτίνη ’πικουρία.
(Since when the Milesians betrayed us, I have never seen even an eight-inch olisbos, that would have been a leathern succour for us.) Suidas, s. v. ὄλισβος· αἰδοῖον δερμάτινον, ᾧ ἐχρῶντο αἱ μιλήσιαι γυναῖκες, ὡς τριβάδες, καὶ αἰσχρουργοί. ἐχρῶντο καὶ αὐτοῖς καὶ αἱ χῆραι γυναῖκες.—s. v. μισήτης· μισῆται δὲ γυναῖκες ὀλίσβῳ χρήσονται. (under the word ὄλισβος: a member of leather; which the Milesian women used, such as tribades and bad women. They were used by widows also.—under the word μισήτης (lewd person): and lewd women will use the olisbos.) Comp. the Scholiast to the passage of Aristophanes quoted. There were also cakes shaped like an olisbos and called ὀλισβόκολλοξ (olisbos-loaves)—Hesychius, which remind us of the cakes in the shape of a penis that were sold in Italy at the feast of SS. Cosmus and Damian. (see Knight, loco citato p. 62.)
[327] Longao or Longano signifies the rectum—straight gut, the large intestine, the longus anus, prolonged anus, as it were. The word is found frequently in Caelius Aurelianus and in Vegetius, De re veterin. (On Veterinary medicine). II. 14., 21., 28. IV. 8. Since the large intestine was used for sausages (Apicius. De re coq.) (On Cookery, Bk. IV. ch. 2.), the sausage was also called longano or longavo. Varro, De ling. lat. V. 111.