“Look at me, thief, and realize the weight of the member you will have to sh...t.” Martial, IX., 70 also plays on the word:
“When you love a woman, Polycharmus, you always sh...t before you have done. Tell me, Polycharmus, what you do, when you pedicate?”
[45]. Pseudolus, IV., sc. VII., 85.
[46]. You might very well, Aloysia, have quoted Horace too (Epodes, XI):
“Now Lyciscus holds me in love-bonds, from which neither friendly advice, nor humiliating affronts avail to liberate me.”
And Satires, I., ii, v. 116-119.
“When your privates are swelling, if some maid-servant or slave-boy is at hand for you to assail forthwith, do you choose rather to burst with desire? Nay! not I!”
[47]. Art of Love, II., 683, 684.
[48]. Priapeia, II.
[49]. Epigr. 44, book IX: