"[Dionysos] cut the thickest branch from a fig tree, smoothed and crafted it into a male member, fixed it to the grave, exposed his buttocks, lowered himself and inserted it. In his horniness he moved his buttocks to suffer from the wood what he had promised."
Arnobius of Sicca Adversus gentes 5.28
🏛 Roman intaglio ring depicting #Dionysos with a winged phallus
@mythology@antiquidons For those of you who are experts in #Latin: I would love to have a proper translation of the original Latin:
"...ficorum ex arbore ramum validissimum praesecans (proesecans?) dolat, runcinat, levigat, et humani speciem fabricatur in penis, figit super aggerem tumuli, et posticû ex parte nudatus accedit, subsidit, insidit. Lascivia deinde surientis assumptâ, huc atque illuc clunes torquet et meditatur ab ligno pati quod jamdudum in veritate promiserat."
Today #amwriting about women and #gender in Venantius Fortunatus. He's pretty conventional, as one would expect, but I'm uncovering some interesting wrinkles.