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Re: CHAT: Latin sexual vocab

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Sunday, June 6, 1999, 7:02
Does it happen to have anything regarding cats shagging one another?  It's
about 3 in the morning, and I'm sitting at my cousin's house in Syracuse
listening to a couple of alley cats get it together in the driveway.

I suppose I'll have to come up with something for that pleasant activity
in Kernu, but not right now...

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

> I have this magnificent old hardcover printed in 1854 called > "Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae," which lists every word ever > used in any vaguely sexual or amatory context, and explains the > meaning, in Latin. Very educational! > > Ed Heil ------ edheil@postmark.net > --- http://purl.org/net/edheil --- > > Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > > > > > > In the case of Classical Latin, I can only cite Adams (1982), and not > > > begin a classicist, I don't know how reliable he is. I'd be rather > > > surprised if from frico, sollicito, tango, tracto, contrecto, truso, > > > trudo, tero, haero, deglubo, glubo, rado, manus fututrix and molo none > > > had survived the fall of the empire... Besides, _masturbari_ is attested > > > in Martial 9, 41: ...Omnia perdiderant, si masturbatus uterque... > > > (Not bad for a copy of Martial from 1853 - it's not bowdlerized, as > > > I feared when I bought it.) I'm also reminded of that charming miniature > > > in the Hours of Duc de Berry, where the peasants are warming their > > > nobility by the fire. > > > > > > > To give credit where credit is due: Adams (1982) is of course: > > > > Adams, J.N. 1982. _The Latin Sexual Vocabulary_, London. > > > > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt > > >