[133] Besides Acro, _Florus Christianus_ also, in his notes on Aristophanes’ Wasps v. 1337., referred the morbus Campanus to _fellation_, saying, Hac detestanda libidine iuxta Lesbios usi sunt _etiam Campani_ sive Nolani, ut ex Ausonio et Horatio patet, quorum testimonia non arcessam, quia hoc occupatum ab eruditioribus. Hoc tantum dicam, aenigma illud, quod in Clodii Metelli uxorem iactum putant: In triclinio Coa, in cubiculo Nola, respicere ad hanc Lesbiam et Campanam foeditatem. (This hateful form of lust was practised by the _Campanians_ or Nolans, as well as by the Lesbians, as is manifest from what Ausonius and Horace say,—whose evidence however I will not quote, this ground being already preoccupied by more learned writers. This much only will I add, viz. the riddle that was directed against the wife of Metellus Clodius: “On the banquet-couch a Coan, in the bed-chamber a Nolan,” and which is thought to allude to this Lesbian and Campanian abomination). The riddle is found in _Quintilian_, Instit. Orat. VIII. 6.; but is differently explained in Forberg, loco citato p. 283. He says: _Coam_ dici, quod voluerit in triclinio coire, _Nolam_, quod noluerit in cubiculo, (that she was called a _Coan_, because willing to have intercourse on the banquet-couch, a Nolan, because unwilling to do so in the bed-chamber), that is to say, Clodia would satisfy her lust only publicly, not in private.
[134] _Hier. Magius_, Bk. V. De sodomitica immanitate ad Leg. cum vir nubit. 31. C. ad leg. Jul. De adulter.—_Wolfart_, Diss. de sodomia vera et spuria in hermaphrod. Erfurt 1743.—_Bechmann_, De coitu damnato. Pt. II, ch. 1.—_Schurig_, Gynaecology, § 2. ch. 7.
[135] _Plutarch_, Bruta animalia ratione uti, (That brutes employ reason), ch. 15.
[136] Lucretius, De rerum natura, bk. V. 888.,
Ne forte ex homine et veterino semine equorum Confieri credas Centauros posse, nec esse.
(Never suppose that the Centaurs _could_ be framed from man and the bestial seed of horses, and _were_ not so framed). _Clement of Alexandria_, Coh. p. 51. Aristonymus the Ephesian begat with a she-ass, Fulvius Stella with a mare, the former a girl, the latter a boy. _Plutarch_, Parall. ch. 26.
[137] Leviticus, Ch. XX, 15-19., “And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death.” Comp. _Philo_, De specialibus legibus,—Works, edit. Mangey, Vol. II. p. 307.