Note 120 — Second Part. (continued 2)

Noteworthy is the explanation of Isidore, Etymol. bk. IV. ch. 9. 17., Oscedo est, qua infantum ora exulcerantur, dicta a languore oscitantium. (Oscedo is a complaint whereby children’s mouths become ulcerated, so called from the languor of those gaping); the latter part is unintelligible. Were these oscitantes (gapers) possibly fellators? Lucian, Pseudolog. ch. 27. says of Timarchus, ἀναπετάσας τὸ στόμα, καὶ ὡς ἔνι πλατύτατον κεχηνὼς, ἠνείχου τυφλούμενος ὑπ’αὐτοῦ τὴν γνάθον. (and with a gape as wide as is possible to make, you were borne away, your jaw blocked by him).