Note 143 — Second Part. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Juvenal, Sat. VI. 332, 33.
Hic si Quaeritur, et desunt homines: more nulla per ipsam, Quominus imposito clunem summittat asello.
(If he is sought in vain, and men are not to be found; she makes no delay, but straightway submits her rear to the donkey that is made to mount her). Comp. Appuleius, Metamorphos. Bk. X. 226. Pasiphaé’s bull is familiar to all. Comp. Suetonius, Nero II. Martial, Spectac. VI.