Note 106 — Second Part. (continued 2)
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However this did happen in isolated cases, as is shown by the example of Philaenis, who indeed was a Tribad properly, in Martial, bk. VII. Epigr. 67.,
Post haec omnia cum libidinatur, Non fellat, putat hoc parum virile. Sed plane medias vorat puellas. Di mentem tibi dent tuam, Philaeni, Cunnum lingere quae putas virile.
(After all these indulgences when she still feels lustful, she does not fellate, this she deems unmanly; she just mouths girls’middles. The gods give you your desire, Philaenis, you who think it a manly vice to act the cunnilingue). Comp. bk. IV. Epigr. 41. But it was always a very exceptional thing to find this vice practised among women; in fact Juvenal, Sat. II. 47-49., denies it altogether:
Non erit ullum Exemplum in nostro tam detestabile sexu, Taedia non lambit Cluviam, nec Flora Catullam.
(No such detestable example is to be found in our sex,—Taedia does not lick Cluvia, nor Flora Catulla).