"Testes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... name (Dabistan i. 171). Ctesias also declares that the Persian kings were under the influence of eunuchs. In the debauched ages of Rome the women found a new use for these effeminates, who had lost only the testes or testiculithe witnesses (of generative force): it is noticed by Juvenal (i. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... laws. For I speak of ecclesiastical laws qua tales, that is, as they are the constitutions of men who are set over us; thus considered, they have only vim dirigendi et monendi.(98) It is said of the apostles, that they were constituted doctrinae Christi testes, non novae doctrinae legist tores.(99) And the same may be said of all the ministers of the gospel, when discipline is taken in with doctrine. He is no nonconformist who holdeth ecclesiam in terris agere partes ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie
... as ordinarily understood, implies the scrotum or testes. The commentator Nilakantha supposes that it may stand for the shoulder-knot. He believes that the phrase implies that the people of this island had ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown |
