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  • In the Priapeia, the wayfarer is warned by Priapus to refrain from stealing fruit under penalty of being assaulted from the rear, and the God adds that, should this punishment hold no terrors, there is still the possibility that his mentule may be used as a club by the irate landowner.

    Satyricon 2007

  • In the Priapeia, the wayfarer is warned by Priapus to refrain from stealing fruit under penalty of being assaulted from the rear, and the God adds that, should this punishment hold no terrors, there is still the possibility that his mentule may be used as a club by the irate landowner.

    The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • In the Priapeia, the wayfarer is warned by Priapus to refrain from stealing fruit under penalty of being assaulted from the rear, and the God adds that, should this punishment hold no terrors, there is still the possibility that his mentule may be used as a club by the irate landowner.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • For a punishment is prepared -- a roughly-shaped mentule.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • "Truly, I am willing," thou sayest; then, truly, behold the farmer comes, and that same mentule plucked from my groin will become an apt cudgel in his strong right hand.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • The god, in anger, retorts that if that punishment has no fears for him, a fustigation by the farmer with the self-same mentule used as a cudgel may have a more deterrent effect.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • And man’s mentule one knows by the length of his nose.)

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And man's mentule one knows by the length of his nose.)

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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