13.This method was not unknown at the time of Aristophanes, as we see from the following passage of the Peace:

“So that you may straightway, lifting up the girl’s legs, accomplish high in air the mysteries” (v. 889, 890).

And in the Birds he says:

“For this girl, your first messenger, why! I will lift up her legs and will in between her thighs” (v. 1254, 55).

14.Readers will find another figure given in some of the books: “The man should be standing, while the woman reclines sideways on the bed.”

15.From —— buttock.

16.Dio Cassius, LIV., 19: “He was so fond of her, that one day he matched her against Livia, as to which of them was the most beautiful.” It was no bad idea to engage them in such a match, but think you he suffered them to fight this out in any costume but that in which the Goddesses three presented themselves before the dazed eyes of Paris?

17.Pliny has treated this at great length in his Natural History (Book X., ch. 63).

18.Compare Dio Cassius, bk. XLVIII., ch. 44.

19.The thing itself is very old; Aristophanes alludes to it in the Peace:

“To wrestle on the ground, to stand on all fours” (v. 896).

And in the Lysistrata:

“I will not squat down like a lioness carved on a knife-handle” (v. 231).