And III., 87:
“Rumour says, Chioné, that your vulva is intact, that nothing could be purer than it. Yet you bathe without covering the thing that should be covered; if you have any shame, then put your drawers upon your face.”
Percidere employed alone means to pedicate. Martial IV., 48; VII., 61; IX., 48; XI., 29; XII., 35; and Priapeia, XII., XIV. Some copies have praecidere for percidere, but this seems to be an untenable reading.
[74]. Martial, XI., 47:
“Why do you plague in vain unhappy vulvas and posteriors; gain but the heights, for there any old member revives.”
Priapeia LXXV.:
“Through the middle of boys and girls travels the member; when it meets bearded chins then it aspires to the heights.”
[75]. Priapeia XXVII.:
“A footlong amulet will pedicate you; if that will not cure you, I go higher.”
[76]. Plautus, in the Amphytrion, I sc. 1, 192: