“Why does Blatara lick? because he cannot manage otherwise.”
The same author, VI., 26:
“Lotades has lost the power of stiffening; so licks.”
And again, XII., 88:
“Thirty young boys you have at command, and as many girls; yet you have only one member, and that will not rise. What then will you do?”
Lick, no doubt, as we are told Linus did, in Epigr. XI., 25:
“This too frisky mentula, Linus, so well known to girls in plenty, will longer stand; so mind your tongue.”
Sextillus (Martial, II., 28), was in all probability also a cunnilingue:
“Have your laugh at those, Sextillus, that call you cinede, and show them your middle finger[[114]]. You are not, Sextillus, a pedicon nor yet a fornicator, nor does Vetustilla’s burning mouth tempt you.—You are none of these, I allow, Sextillus; then what are you? I know not, but remember! there are two sorts yet.”
Two sorts are still left for Sextillus, to suck the virile member and to lick the vulva, while he is neither a fornicator, nor a cinede, nor a pedicon, nor an irrumator. Which did he choose to be? This we are not told. Eunuchs, just as impotent as aged men, adopt the practice for the same reason.[[115]] Gregory Nazianzen says in his funeral sermon on Basil the Great: