[1] What can one do over there, unless he hunts up old books?
[2] Paris Embankment.
[3] Vide biographical notice at the end of this volume.
[4] Poppysmatum.—That word being but little used, it may be useful to record here the definition given of it by the Glossarium eroticum linguæ latinæ (auctore P. P., Paris, 1826):
Poppysma.—Oris pressi sonus, similis illi quo permulcentur equi et canes. Obscene vero de susurro cunni labiorum, quum frictu madescunt.
Father Sinistrari, well versed in classical literature, had turned to account the following epigram of Martial (book VII, 18):
IN GALLAM
Quum tibi sit facies, de qua nec fœmina possit
Dicere, quum corpus nulla litura notet;
Cur te tam rarus cupiat, repetatque fututor,