_Mentula cum doleat puero, tibi_, Naevole, _culus_, Non sum divinus, sed scio quid facias.
(To Naevolus.—When I see _pained and sore the boy’s penis and your posterior_, Naevolus,—I’m no wizard, but I know what it is you do). Here we see both parts suffering from disease, the paederast in his penis, the pathic in his posterior: and _Martial_ concludes Naevolus was a _cinaedus_.
But more especially must phimosis and paraphimosis have had a tendency to be set up in the case of the paederast. These at first, because the continuous state of erection of the _penis_ which is a feature of these affections was obviously the most visibly conspicuous symptom, were designated by the name Satyriasis, the usual appellation of the latter condition. This will also give a probable explanation of the mortality from this cause observed by _Themison_ in _Crete_[266],—a locality notorious, as we have seen, for the dishonouring of boys,—and generally for the frequency of Satyriasis, which often took an almost epidemic character in that island. Paraphimosis it should be noted in passing had already been only too frequently noted as affecting masturbators. Physicians indeed say nothing as to the predisposing causes, and explain the disease as arising from an _Acrimonia humorum_ (Acridness of the humours) or from drinking a Philtre (Love-potion). _Naumann_[267] appears to wish to make the Satyriasis that prevailed in Crete some form of leprous affection, but for this view we can find absolutely no ground.
Much more frequent mention is found of affections of the _rectum_ among the pathics as consequences of paederastia. First come fissures, and in their train ulcers of the _rectum_; whence the expressions _sectus_, _percisus_ (cut), and the like are applied so often in Roman writers to the pathic, and to his vice generally. So _Martial_[268] says:
_Secti podicis usque ad umbilicum_ Nullas reliquias habet Carinus, Et prurit tamen usque ad umbilicum. O quanta scabie miser laborat! Culum non habet, est tamen cinaedus.
(To Carinus.—Carinus has no relics left of _his fundament, cut up to the very navel_; and yet he itches with desire up to the very navel. Oh! what a vile itch torments the unhappy man! He possesses no posterior, and nevertheless is a cinaedus (pathic).)