I avoid
doctors: about 85% of all complaints with which people go to a doctor, will
disappear after a few days, with or without doctor. The new fashion of total
body scans – promoted by private clinics – only serves to make people afraid of
what can possibly happen and of course they will take preventive cures and yes,
need to go back every year to that commercial clinic. Baccara had an extra reason to avoid a doctor,
at least this specific doctor who had an eye on the same girl. Especially as he
had something with his penis, he should have been thinking twice. I will rather
not speculate on medical details, but anyway, Baccara is careless or desperate
enough to go to his rival and Martial predicts the consequence:
Martialis
11.74
Curandum
penem commisit Baccara Raetus
rivali medico. Baccara Gallus erit.
committo commisi commissum: to entrust something (acc.) to
(dat.)
Raetus: inhabitant
of Raetia (modern Tirol)
Gallus: inhabitant of Gallia, but also the name for a
priest of Cybele. The cult of this Anatolian goddess, known to the Romans as
Magna Mater, was adopted during the Second Punic War (218 -201) and the priests
castrated themselves during ecstatic rituals…
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