Note 5 — Second Part.

Haud scio an Rhododaphnes cognomine a Syris isti tradito tecte sugilletur cunnilingus, ita ut rosa lateat cunnus, in lauri folio lingua lingens, (I cannot say for certain whether by the surname of “Rhododaphne”—rose-laurel—given the man by the Syrians it is covertly suggested he was a cunnilingus, as much as to say that while a cunnus—female organ—is suggested by the rose, a licking tongue is the same in the laurel-leaf), says Forberg, loco citato p. 281. Suidas, s. v. ῥοδωνία· ἔστι μὲν ὁ τῶν ῥόδων λείμων· ἄλλοι δὲ καὶ τὴν ῥοδοδάφνην οὕτω φασὶ καλεῖσθαι (under the word ῥοδωνία—rose-garden: it is the meadow of roses; but others again say this is called ῥοδοδάφνη). Pliny, Hist. Nat. XVI. 33. Hesychius, s. v. ῥοδωνία says: δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ ἀνδρὸς αἰδοῖον αὕτη. (under the word ῥοδωνία—rose-garden: this signifies also the human genitals).