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: