Quas Tannonius ille cum utriusque sexus genitalia intellegi vellet, sed eloqui propter infantiam causidicus summus nequiret, multum ac diu haesitato tandem virile marinum nescio qua circumlocutione male ac sordide nominavit; sed enim feminal nullo pacto repperiens munditer dicere ad mea scripta confugit et quodam libro meo legit: interfeminium tegat et femoris obiectu et palmae velamento.
Tannonius there intended this to be taken to mean the genital organs of either sex but, being too tongue-tied, this consummate lawyer could not say the words, so after hesitating for a very long time and using a strange circumlocution, he finally called the male organ by an ugly, vulgar word the marine; but not finding any way to mention the female one with propriety, he took refuge in my writings and read in a certain book of mine, Let her hide her interloin both with the screen of her thigh and the cover of her palm.
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