Caussam cum modo quaererent sodales:

Ventrem, dixit, habere se solutum.

(On Charisianus.—Charisianus says, Lupus, that for many days he has been unable to indulge in paederastia. When his comrades asked the reason; his bowels, he said, were relaxed!)

But most frequently of all are the fig-like swellings on the fundament (Ficus, Mariscae,—figs, large figs) mentioned by Ancient authors as a consequence of paederastia.

De se Priapus[271].

Non sum de fragili dolatus ulmo;

Nec quae stat rigida supina vena,

De ligno mihi quolibet columna est,

Sed viva generata de cupresso.—

Hanc, tu quisquis es, o malus, timeto: