The book that I mentioned during tonight’s meeting is “The Latin Sexual Vocabulary” by J.N. Adams, Johns Hopkins University Press. This is a wonderful book to browse through.
Quoting the back cover: “…collects for the first time evidence of Latin obscenities and sexual euphemisms drawn from both literary and nonliterary sources from the early Republic to about the 4th century A.D.”
And it's a bargain at $26, compared to the $325 for Texts and Transmission (which itself is over 35 years old)! There must—!?…ought to be—a website that has this information, even if out-dated by T&T.
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