Note 111 — Chapter V · CUNNILINGUES

Altrinsecus, in Ausonius, is equivalent to utrinsecus, meaning, from either side. Lactantius employs that word in De Opificio Dei, ch. 8: “It is incredible how the fact of their being double (the ears) adds to their beauty, as much on account of the symmetry thus produced, as because the sounds which arise on all sides, can more easily be received on both sides (altrinsecus).”