Note 216 — 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.
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Martial, II. 62.,
Quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod brachia vellis, Quod cincta est brevibus mentula tonsa pilis, Haec praestas, Labiene, tuae, quis nescit? amicae.
(You pluck your chest, your legs, your arms, your shaven member is surrounded by short hair,—all these pains you offer, everyone knows it, to your mistress.) Bk. IX. 27.,
Cum depilatos, Chreste coleos portes, Et vulturino mentulam parem collo, Et prostitutis laevius caput culis, Nec vivat ullus in tuo pilus crure Purgentque crebrae cana labra volsellae etc.
(For you have your testicles freed from hair, Chrestus, and your member like a vulture’s neck, and your head smoother than those posteriors that you prostitute. Not a hair lives on your leg, and frequent application of the tweezers keeps clean your shaven lips, etc.) Comp. Bk. IX. 48. 58. Suetonius, Otho 12. Persius, IV. 37. Ausonius, 131.