meinsius

Updated: May 24, 2025

Meinsius thinks that the custom of infibulating may be traced back to the time of the siege of Troy, for the singer Demodocus, who was left with Clytemnestra by Agamemnon, appears to that critic, to have been a eunuch, or, at least, to here been infibulated.

John Davenport - Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction