Note 36 — Second Part.
Reading edition
Martial, XI. Epigr. 30.,
Os male causidicis et dicis olere poetis: Sed fellatori, Zoile, peius olet.
(The mouth you say smells ill with pleaders and poets; but Zoilus, it smells worse with the fellator). Hence the expressions, os male olens, anima foetida, gravis, graveolens, graveolentia oris spiritus ieiunio macer, ieiuna anima, hircosum osculum, basia olidissima. (evil-smelling mouth, fetid breath, foul, ill-smelling, fetid smell of the breath from the mouth—hungry and lean, fasting breath, goaty kiss, most smelly embraces). Possibly too this was the origin of the Lemnian women’s punishment. Comp. above p. 148.