Quid narrat tua moecha? non puellam
Dixi, Tongilion. Quid ergo? Linguam!
(What tale is it your harlot tells? Nay! I did not say girl, Tongilion. What then? Why, tongue!).
[31] Diodorus, Bk. I. ch. 60. Same is related in Strabo, Geogr. bk. XVI. p. 759.—Seneca, De Ira bk. III. ch. 20.
[32] Sozomen, Hist. Eccles. bk. VI. ch. 30., Rhinocolura vero illo tempore viris piis non aliunde advocatis, sed indigenis floruit, quorum optimos sapientiae sese studio hic dedisse intellexi. Novi Melanam, tunc ecclesiae episcopum et Dionysium, monasterium ad septentrionem urbis moderantem, ac Solonem, Melanis fratrem ac successorem in episcopatu. (But Rhinocolura at that time abounded in men of piety, not invited thither, but natives, the most eminent of whom I have been informed devoted themselves in that place to the study of Wisdom. I knew personally Melanas, then Bishop of the church there, and Dionysius, governing a monastery lying to the South of the City, and Solon, brother of Melanas and his successor in the Bishopric.). The same is affirmed by Nicephorus as well, (Hist. Eccles. bk. XI. ch. 38.). Within the last two years there has appeared a Tract or Occasional Paper, dealing with the Colony at Rhinocolura, but unfortunately we cannot put our hand on the more precise memorandum of its contents.
[33] As to his views on the Morbus Phoeniceus (Phoenician Disease), this will be discussed under the head of the vice of the Cunnilingue.
[34] Bonorden, “Die Syphilis” (Syphilis). Berlin 1834., p. 19.
[35] Clossius, “Ueber die Lustseuche” (On Venereal Disease). Tübingen 1797., p. 49.—Perenotti di Cigliano, Of Venereal Disease, p. 92. Fabre, Treatise on Venereal Disease, p. 5.
[36] Martial, XI. Epigr. 30.,
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