Diffissa nate ficos.
(For as loud as a burst bladder sounds, I farted my swellings (ficos—figs) away, splitting the rump), ficos and not as commonly ficus must be read.
That these morbid growths were not entirely free from contagious matter seems to be indicated by the following passages. In the Priapeia (Carm. 50) we read:
Quaedam, si placet hoc tibi, Priape,
Ficosissima me puella ludit,
Et non dat mihi, nec negat daturam;
Causasque invenit usque differendi.
Quae si contigerit fruenda nobis,
Totam cum paribus, Priape, nostris
Cingemus tibi mentulam coronis.