(Charinus is in excellent health, and yet he is pale. Charinus drinks moderately, and yet he is pale. Charinus digests well, yet he is pale. Charinus takes the sun, yet he is pale. Charinus dyes his skin, yet he is pale. Charinus licks a woman’s organ, yet he is pale).
[78] Martial, bk. XI. Epigr. 86. As to this Zoilus see Martial, bk. XI. Epigr. 61.
[79] Martial, Bk. III. Epigr. 61.
[80] Greek Anthology bk. II. Tit. 13. Note 19.,
Τὴν φωνὴν ἐνοπήν σε λέγειν ἐδίδαξεν Ὅμηρος,
Τὴν γλῶσσαν δ’ἐν ὀπῇ τίς σ’ἐδίδαξεν ἔχειν.
(Homer taught you to utter your voice and speak whole words, but, pray! who taught you to have your tongue in a hole?) Here ὀπὴ (hole) obviously stands for the female organ,—a meaning omitted in the Lexicons.
[81] So too in the following Epigram of Ausonius (127.),
Eune, quod uxoris gravidae putria inguina lambis,
Festinas glossas non natis tradere natis.