Volume 1

The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A.

  • Georg August Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum
Date:
1901
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Credit: The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forgo quoting it in full, particularly as it is the sole authority for the views held by physicians on this vice, and up to now appears to have been entirely overlooked. DE MOLLIBUS SIVE SUBACTIS, QUOS GRAECI MaLDPUROVG VOCANT. “Molles sive subactos Graeci waigaxoVg voca- “verunt, quos quidem esse nullus facile virorum “credit. Non enim hoc humanos ex natura venit “in mores, sed pulso pudore, libido etiam indebitas “partes obscoenis usibus subiugavit. Cum enim “nullus cupiditati modus, nulla satietatis spes est, “singulis Sparta non sufficit sua. Nam sic nostri “corporis loca divina providentia certis destinavit “ officiis. Tum denique volentes alliciunt veste atque “gressu, et aliis femininis rebus, quae sunt a pas- “sionibus corporis aliena, sed potius corruptae mentis “vitia. Nam saepe tumentes [timentes], vel quod “est difficile, verentes quosdam, quibus forte deferunt, “repente mutati parvo tempore virilitatis quaerunt “indicia demonstrare, cuius quia modum nesciunt, “rursum nimietate sublati, plus quoque quam virtuti “convenit, faciunt et maioribus si peccatis involvunt. “Constat itaque etiam nostro iudicio, hos vera “sentire. Est enim, ut Soranus ait, malignae ac “foedissimae mentis passio. Nam sicut feminae “Tribades! appellatae, quod utramque Venerem woman’s parts which is called 1 Tribades dictae a reiBa, the clitoris grown to a size frico, frictrices, sunt qui- bus ea pars naturae muliebris, quam clitoridem vocant, in tantam magnitudinem excres- cit, ut possint illa pro mentuia vel ad futuendum vel ad paedicandum uti. “ Tribades”, so called from reißo,—I rub, women that rub, are such as have that portion of the I. so excessive that they can use it as a penis whether for fornicating of for paederastia. So says Forberg, loco citato p. 345. Comp. Hesychius &raı- eioreinı Toıßades (lewd women, Zribades.) The Les- bian women were especially notorious for it. Zucian, II
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