Vellere, cum lacrimis eximis et gemitu.
Sic constringuntur gemina Symplegade culi,
Et Minyas intrant Cyaneasque nates.
Emendare cupis vitium deforme? docebo.
Lesbia, nec surgas censeo, nec sedeas!
(To Lesbia.—As oft as you rise from your chair, Lesbia, I have many a time noticed the fact, your undergarments, poor lady, play the paederast with you. You endeavour to pluck them away first with the right, anon with the left hand; finally you release them with tears and groaning. So drawn together are the twin Symplegades of your fundament, and enter in between Minyan and Cyanean buttocks. Would you fain cure this ungraceful defect? I will tell you how: I think, Lesbia, you’d better not get up, nor yet sit down!)
Usually indeed the Pathic tried to conceal his complaint, and to make it pass under some other name, as does Charisianus:
De Charisiano[270].
Multis jam, Lupe, posse se diebus
Paedicare negat Charisianus.