Note 258 — SECOND SECTION. Influences which served to hinder to a greater or less degree the inception of Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.
Reading edition
Martial, bk. VII. Epigr. 34. 35.,
Inguina succinctus nigra tibi servus aluta Stat, quoties calidis tota foveris aquis.
(A slave girt about the loins with a pouch of black leather stands by you, as oft as you are washed all over with warm water). Claudian, I. 106.,
Pectebat dominae crines et saepe lavanti Nudus in argento lympham portabat alumnae.
(He was wont to comb his mistress’hair, and oft when she bathed, naked, he would bring water for his lady in a silver ewer).