. vi, p. 197.

[173] The term "cunnilinctus" was suggested to me by the late Dr. J.
Bonus, and I have ever since used it; the Latin authors commonly used
"cunnilingus" for the actor, but had no corresponding term for the action.
Hirschfeld has lately used the term "cunnilinctio" in the same sense, but
such a formation is quite inadmissible. For information on the classic
terms for this perversion, see, e.g., Iwan Bloch, _Ursprung der Syphilis_,
vol. ii, p. 612 et seq.

[174] Casanova, _Memoires_, ed. Gamier, vol. iv, p. 597.

[175] Hirschfeld deals in a full and authoritative manner with the
differential diagnosis of inversion and the other groups of transitional
sexuality in _Die Homosexualitaet_, ch. ii; also in his fully illustrated
book _Geschlechtsuebergaenge_, 1905.

[176] Havelock Ellis, "Auto-erotism," in vol. i of these _Studies_; Iwan
Bloch, _Ursprung der Syphilis_, vol. ii, p. 589; ib., _Die Prostitution_,
vol, i, pp. 385-6; for early references, Crusius, _Untersuchungen zu den
Mimiamben der Herondas_, pp. 129-30.

[177] I have found a notice of a similar case in France, during the
sixteenth century, in Montaigne's _Journal du Voyage en Italie en_ 1850
(written by his secretary); it took place near Vitry le Francois. Seven or
eight girls belonging to Chaumont, we are told, resolved to dress and to
work as men; one of these came to Vitry to work as a weaver, and was
looked upon as a well-conditioned young man, and liked by everyone. At
Vitry she became betrothed to a woman, but, a quarrel arising, no marriage
took place. Afterward "she fell in love with a woman whom she married, and
with whom she lived for four or five months, to the wife's great
contentment, it is said; but, having been recognized by some one from
Chaumont, and brought to justice, she was condemned to be hanged. She said
she would even prefer this to living again as a girl, and was hanged for
using illicit inventions to supply the defects of her sex" (_Journal_, ed.
by d'Ancona, 1889, p. 11).

[178] Roux, _Bulletin Societe d'Anthropologie_, 1905, No. 3. Roux knew a
Comarian woman who, at the age of 50, after her husband's death, became
homosexual and made herself an artificial penis which she used with
younger women.

[179] Hirschfeld, _Die Homosexualitaet_, p. 47.

[180] There are few traces of feminine homosexuality in English social
history of the past. In Charles the Second's Court, the _Memoires de
Ghrammont_ tell us, Miss Hobar