List Of Agricultural And Horticultural Terms
List Of Agricultural And Horticultural Terms Used Tropically In A Venereal Sense
The word "hortus" is used in a punning sense in Epigram 4 to mean both a garden and a boy's posteriors. This second meaning is like the Greek "kepos" (a woman's privy parts), used by Diogenes. Plautus uses hortus for a woman's privities.
Thyrsumque pangant hurtulo in cupidinis
And let them plant the shoot in the garden of Cupid.
The Latin writers often used an agricultural and horticultural vocabulary tropically in sexual matters, as the following examples will show:
Ager--a field--a woman's parts and even the buttocks
"Arare"--to plough--to have connection with a woman
"Arbor"--a tree--the penis
"Arvum"--a field--a woman's genitals
"Beta"--the beet--is used by Catullus in describing a languid mentule
"Cadurcum"--a coverlet--a woman's privities
"Campus"--a plain, an open space--has a similar meaning
"Cucumis"--a cucumber--the mentule
"Deglubere"--to husk off, to shell--to practise masturbation, or perhaps irrumation
"Faba"--a bean--a testicle
"FaIx"--a sickle--the penis
"Ficus"--a fig--piles, from their resemblance in appearance to this fruit
"Fodere"--to dig, to plough--to have connection with a woman
"Folliculus"--a husk, pod, follicle--the vulva
"Fons"--a fountain--is used to signify the vagina of a woman
"Fossa"--a ditch--employed in the double sense of a woman's natural parts and the posteriors of a catamite
"Fossula"--a little ditch--see above
"Fossor"--a ditcher--a fornicator
"Hortus"--a garden--see above
"Mala"--apples--the testicles
"Marisca"--a fig--piles and also a woman's parts
"Molere"--to grind: and
"Mollitor"--a grinder--to futter
"Nuces"--nuts--has reference to the use of boys as catamites
"Olera"--herbs--is used transf. with an obscene meaning
"Palus"--a stake and
"Pessulus"--a bolt are both designations of the male member
"Plantaria"--ferns--the hair on the privy parts
"Poma"--apples, fruit--testicles
"Radix"--a root--penis
"Ramus"--a bough and
"Raster"--a hoe--are both designations of the male member
"Rigare"--to water--to emit semen
"Ros"--dew--semen
"Saltus"--a narrow path, a defile--a woman's parts
"Sarrire"--to hoe, to weed--to swive a woman
"Sceptrum"--staff--mentule
"Scobs"--a ditch--the privy parts of a woman
"Sulcus"--the furrow cut by the plough--used of a female
"Thyrsus"--a stalk
"Trabs"--a beam
"Truncus"--a trunk
"Virgula"--a wand and
"Vomer"--a ploughshare--are all metonyms for the penis
"Vinea"--a vineyard--is a well-known appellation of the female organ of generation.
[1. In Boccaccio's Decameron--'Taking the dibble with which he planted men, he thrust it hastily into the furrow made therefor... The radical moisture, wherewith all plants are made fast, was by this come...']
The word "hortus" is used in a punning sense in Epigram 4 to mean both a garden and a boy's posteriors. This second meaning is like the Greek "kepos" (a woman's privy parts), used by Diogenes. Plautus uses hortus for a woman's privities.
Thyrsumque pangant hurtulo in cupidinis
And let them plant the shoot in the garden of Cupid.
The Latin writers often used an agricultural and horticultural vocabulary tropically in sexual matters, as the following examples will show:
Ager--a field--a woman's parts and even the buttocks
"Arare"--to plough--to have connection with a woman
"Arbor"--a tree--the penis
"Arvum"--a field--a woman's genitals
"Beta"--the beet--is used by Catullus in describing a languid mentule
"Cadurcum"--a coverlet--a woman's privities
"Campus"--a plain, an open space--has a similar meaning
"Cucumis"--a cucumber--the mentule
"Deglubere"--to husk off, to shell--to practise masturbation, or perhaps irrumation
"Faba"--a bean--a testicle
"FaIx"--a sickle--the penis
"Ficus"--a fig--piles, from their resemblance in appearance to this fruit
"Fodere"--to dig, to plough--to have connection with a woman
"Folliculus"--a husk, pod, follicle--the vulva
"Fons"--a fountain--is used to signify the vagina of a woman
"Fossa"--a ditch--employed in the double sense of a woman's natural parts and the posteriors of a catamite
"Fossula"--a little ditch--see above
"Fossor"--a ditcher--a fornicator
"Hortus"--a garden--see above
"Mala"--apples--the testicles
"Marisca"--a fig--piles and also a woman's parts
"Molere"--to grind: and
"Mollitor"--a grinder--to futter
"Nuces"--nuts--has reference to the use of boys as catamites
"Olera"--herbs--is used transf. with an obscene meaning
"Palus"--a stake and
"Pessulus"--a bolt are both designations of the male member
"Plantaria"--ferns--the hair on the privy parts
"Poma"--apples, fruit--testicles
"Radix"--a root--penis
"Ramus"--a bough and
"Raster"--a hoe--are both designations of the male member
"Rigare"--to water--to emit semen
"Ros"--dew--semen
"Saltus"--a narrow path, a defile--a woman's parts
"Sarrire"--to hoe, to weed--to swive a woman
"Sceptrum"--staff--mentule
"Scobs"--a ditch--the privy parts of a woman
"Sulcus"--the furrow cut by the plough--used of a female
"Thyrsus"--a stalk
"Trabs"--a beam
"Truncus"--a trunk
"Virgula"--a wand and
"Vomer"--a ploughshare--are all metonyms for the penis
"Vinea"--a vineyard--is a well-known appellation of the female organ of generation.
[1. In Boccaccio's Decameron--'Taking the dibble with which he planted men, he thrust it hastily into the furrow made therefor... The radical moisture, wherewith all plants are made fast, was by this come...']
