Note 285 — THIRD SECTION. Relation of the Physician to Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.
Reading edition
Examples of such are at any rate plentiful in Martial, e.g. bk. XI. Epigr. 75.,
Curandum penem commisit Bacchara Graecus Rivali medico: Bacchara Gallus erit.
(Bacchara entrusted the cure of his member to a rival doctor: Bacchara was a Greek, he will now be a Gaul,—“Gallus”, castrated Priest of Cybelé).
bk. II. Epigr. 46.,
Quae tibi non stabat, praecisa est mentula, Glypte. Demens, cum ferro quid tibi? Gallus eras.
(Your member, Glyptus, that you could never get to stand erect, has been cut. Fool,—why! what had you to do with the knife? You were a “Gallus” already).
bk. III. Epigr. 81.,
Abscissa est quare Samia tibi mentula testa, Si tibi tam gratus, Baetice, cunnus erat?
(Why has your member been cut with a Samian potsherd, if the female organ, Baeticus, was so dear to you)?