[285] Examples of such are at any rate plentiful in Martial, e.g. bk. XI. Epigr. 75.,
Curandum penem commisit Bacchara Graecus
Rivali medico: Bacchara Gallus erit.
(Bacchara entrusted the cure of his member to a rival doctor: Bacchara was a Greek, he will now be a Gaul,—“Gallus”, castrated Priest of Cybelé).
bk. II. Epigr. 46.,
Quae tibi non stabat, praecisa est mentula, Glypte.
Demens, cum ferro quid tibi? Gallus eras.
(Your member, Glyptus, that you could never get to stand erect, has been cut. Fool,—why! what had you to do with the knife? You were a “Gallus” already).
bk. III. Epigr. 81.,
Abscissa est quare Samia tibi mentula testa,