Note 126 — Second Part. (continued 2)

Seneca, Nat. Quaest. bk. I. ch. 16., also says of Hostius, who had contrived magnifying mirrors for his use, in order to see himself in all positions: Et quia non tam diligenter intueri poterat, cum compressus erat et caput merserat, inguinibusque alienis obhaeserat, opus sibi suum per imagines offerebat, (But as he could not so accurately see, when he was shut in and had plunged down his head, and was fast to another’s private parts, under those circumstances he had his doings represented to him by pictures).—Catullus, LXXXIII. 7.,

(For there exists no further form of wickedness that he can resort to,—not even if he devour himself with down-pressed head). Propertius, bk. II. 15. 22., Mecum habuit positum lenta puella caput, (A limber girl held her head down-pressed along with me).