[141] Suetonius, Vita Augusti, ch. 94.
[142] This last statement acquires no little additional interest from the fact that according to more modern observations on the part of J. Carver (Voyage dans l’Amérique Sept., etc. trad. de l’Anglais,—Travels in North America, etc., transl. from the English, Yverdun 1784., pp. 355 sqq.) and Crêve-Cœur (Lettres du Cultivateur Américain,—Letters from an American Farmer, Vol. III. p. 48), the bite of the rattle-snake would appear to call up on the skin of the person bitten, each recurrent year, marks resembling the hue of the snake. Comp. C. W. Stark, “Allgem. Pathologie” (General Pathology), Leipzig 1838. p. 364. Perhaps too the expression κίναδος belongs in this connection, of which the Scholiast on Aristophanes, Clouds 447., says, εἶδός τι θηρίου.—κακοῦργος οὖν, φησὶν, ὡς ἀλώπηξ, τινὲς δὲ κίναδος ζῶον μικρὸν τὸ αἰδοῖον εἰςσωθοῦν καὶ ἐξωθοῦν. (a kind of beast,—mischievous, they say, as a fox, but others say κίναδος means a little animal that forces its way in and out of the privates). Suidas brings forward the same statement, under the word κίναδος. From the connection in which Democritus mentions it in Stobaeus’Sermon. 42., περὶ κιναδέων τε καὶ ἑρπετέων (Of κίναδοι and Creeping Things), Schmeider in his Lexicon supposes it to signify snakes particularly. Again Schnieder, Arrian’s Indica p. 50., interprets it by ὄφις (a snake). The close resemblance with κίναιδος (Cinaedus) is striking.
[143] Juvenal, Sat. VI. 332, 33.
Hic si
Quaeritur, et desunt homines: more nulla per ipsam,
Quominus imposito clunem summittat asello.
(If he is sought in vain, and men are not to be found; she makes no delay, but straightway submits her rear to the donkey that is made to mount her). Comp. Appuleius, Metamorphos. Bk. X. 226. Pasiphaé’s bull is familiar to all. Comp. Suetonius, Nero II. Martial, Spectac. VI.
[144] Jo. Jac. Reiske and Jo. Ern. Fabri, Opuscula medica ex monumentis Arabum et Ebraeorum, (Minor Medical Treatises derived from the Monuments of the Arabs and Jews), Revised edition by Ch. G. Gruner, Halle 1776. 8vo., p. 61.
[145] Hippocrates, De aere aq. et loc., edit. Kühn Vol. I. p. 549.
[146] Comp. Simon Zeller von Zellenberg, Abhandl. über die ersten Erscheinungen venerischer Lokal-Krankheitsformen und deren Behandlung, (Treatise on the first Appearances of Local Forms of Venereal disease, and their Treatment), (One treatise under six heads),—Vienna 1820. large 8vo. pp. 11-18.