Note 14 — Second Part.
Reading edition
Lucian, Pseudologist. ch. 21., uses ἔργον (work) of the Irrumator and Fellator. Similarly Horace, Epod. VIII. 19, says:
fascinum Quod ut superbo provoces ab inguine, Ore allaborandum est tibi.
(a member ... that needs, for you to provoke it to rise from the unsympathetic groin, to be worked with your mouth). Ovid’s phrase “dulce opus” (sweet task) and Horace’s “molle opus” (gentle task) are familiar. Comp. Hesychius, s.v. ἀῤῥητουργία,—αἰσχρουργία, κακουργία, τὰ ἀῤῥητα ἐργάζεσθαι, (under the word ἀῤῥητουργία, infamous action,—base action, evil action, the performance of infamous tasks).