Quintilien , Institutio Oratoria / Institutiones Oratoriae, 1.6.36

nec ei cedit Modestus inventione , nam , quia caelo Saturnus genitalia absciderit , hoc nomine appellatos , qui uxore careant , ait ; Aelius pituitam , quia petat vitam .

Bibliography

J. N. Adams , The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, 56 - More with this book More on this page

TLL, TLL VI.2.1815.42ff - More with this book

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