HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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And Ariftotle may be quoted to tnis purpote, who
thought that other animals were not affeaIed with a
gonorrhcea as well as men, becaufe they did not lye
upon their backs—Prob. X. On the contrary, high--
mettled horfes, when their loins and reins are heated
by the motion of their riders, run with a furious heat
to venery. The Athenian matrons feem to have
known this, who, when in their famous feafts, they lay
from their hufbands—and, as Ovid lays in his Meta-
morphofis, book XI., Fab. XI.-
Pefq ; novem Noaes Venerem taaufq ; virileis
In Vetitis numerabant, &c.
Held it a fin to follow Venus's rites,
Or touch a man the fpace of nine long nights—
made their beds of what the Latins call Vitrix or
Agnus Callus. This is a kind of ihrub appropriated
to extinguifh luft : for this purpofe they fhrewed
the leaves of it under their backs, with an intent of
reftraining the generative power of the feed, and the
appetite to venery in the reins and adjoining parts.
Of this there are frequent inftances in hiftory—in
Diofcorides, in Pliny, Galen, and ./Elian nor is there
any