Note 233 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)

Patentiora sunt nobis Italis Hispanisve, quis neget? Veneris ostia. (With us, Italians or Spaniards, the orifices of Love are more open,—who can deny the fact?). Aloysia Sigaea Satira sotadica, p. 305. Compare Martial, I, Bk. XI. epigram 22. Less frequently, and only for later times, may the reason have existed which Martial specifies in the case of the young wife, Martial Bk. XI. epigr. 78:

(She—the newly-wed wife—will allow her longing husband just once to lie with her as with a man, while she still dreads the first wounds of the unfamiliar weapon). Comp. Priapeia, carmen II.