“When Castor longed in vain to lick men’s middles, but could take no one home with him, he found means not to lose all pleasure of the sort, fellator as he was; he started to lick his own wife’s organs.” In other words from being a fellator Castor became a cunnilingue.
[81]. Martial, III., 88:
“They are twin brothers, but they suck different teats: tell me are they more unlike or like?”
The one was a fellator, the other a cunnilingue.
Again, VII., 54:
“You shall suck not mine, which is honest and small, but a member escaped from the fire of Solyma’s city and condemned to tribute.”
I do not know whence Scioppius (Priap. X), has it, that Martial was well furnished; the latter avows in that passage, that his mentula was quite small. To affront Chrestus, he orders him to lick, not his, but the mentula of a Jewish slave. He has mentioned this Jewish slave already in Epigr. 34 of the same book:
“My slave carries a heavy Jewish parcel without skin to cover it.” That means his member is circumcized, the gland being uncovered, without prepuce, in one word, “recutitus.” So, I think, is to be understood the recutitorum inguine virorum of Martial, VII., 29: he means, “the virile parts of circumcized men,” the skin of whose glands is drawn back. Recutitus stands for recinctus, regelatus, reseratus. Many other words, e.g. revincire, similarly admit of two meanings, and thus, no doubt should arise about Martial’s expression: recutita colla mulae (IX., 58), which refers to the mules having a new skin covering their necks. I differ from those who think that those were called recutiti whose prepuce began to grow again; a recutitus was to the Romans an object of contempt. Petronius: “He has two faults, else he would be like any other man recutitus est et sertit. He is circumcized and snores” (Satyr., ch. 28). It is impossible to suppose the glans could have been thought more disgusting covered by a new prepuce than with none at all.
[82]. A man that is being irrumated cannot speak, his mouth being obstructed by the mentula, thus: he is silent. Martial, III., 96 says to Gargilius, a cunnilingue, menacing him with the third punishment, if he should catch him in the fact:
“If I should catch thee at it, Gargilius, I’ll make thee silent.”