Besides the passages quoted, there are several others to be found in _Martial_, that must be taken as referring to the _fellator_; but since the maladies that occur are equally prevalent in the case of the _Cunnilingue_, it will be more convenient to adduce them under that head. Further, we only require to mention the fact that _pale lips_ seem to have been regarded as a mark of the _fellator_[55].
But the vice of the _fellator_ is far surpassed in baseness by that of the _Cunnilingue_ (_qui opus peragit linguam arrigendo in cunnum, eumque lambit_,—one who works by putting his tongue up into the female organ, and licking it). The Greeks called this practice σκύλαξ (a puppy), because it is a habit of dogs[56], and Hesychius explains it by σχῆμα ἀφροδισιακὸν, ὡς τὸ τῶν φοινικιζόντων (a method of love, resembling that of those who phoenicize). We have already, in the passage of _Lucian_ quoted a little above, found φοινικίζειν and λεσβιάζειν put side by side; _Galen_ moreover[57] does the same in the following passage, a noteworthy one for our purpose on several accounts: “The drinking of sweat, urine and the menstrual blood of women is vicious and shameful, and not less so when a person, as Xenocrates proposes to do, smears the regions of the mouth and throat with excrement, and swallows it down. He speaks also of taking the wax of the ears. For my part I could never bring myself to take this, even though by that means I were never to be ill again. But excrement I consider yet more disgusting, and it is for a man of any decency far more shameful to be called an Excrement-Eater[58] than an αἰσχρουργὸς (worker of obscenities) or a _cinaedus_. But of αἰσχρουργοὶ[59] (workers of obscenities), we abominate Phoenicians more than the Lesbians, and it seems to me the man does something of the same sort as the former who drinks menstrual blood (μᾶλλον βδελλυττόμεθα τοὺς _φοινικίζοντας_ τῶν λεσβιαζόντων ᾧ[60] φαίνεταί μοι παραπλήσιόν τι πάσχειν ὁ καὶ καταμηνίου πίνων.) _A sensible man will neither seek to collect experiences on the point, nor yet on a practice, which it is true involves less_, but still is sufficiently shameful, that of smearing a part of the body with excrement, because he has some hurt at that spot,—or with human seed. Xenocrates calls this latter commonly γόνος (seed, semen), and distinguishes with minute care between cases where simple seed rubbed in by itself is of benefit, and cases where the female has the same effect after combination with the male, as it is discharged from the woman’s womb.”