person
the father-in-law of Visellius
Visellius' father-in-law
also: socer Viselli
An otherwise unknown man proverbial for a ruptured swelling (a hernia); the opposite physical pole to the eunuch Tanais in Horace's image of extremes.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.1 Visellius' father-in-law
An unknown man proverbial for a hernia; the opposite bodily extreme to the eunuch Tanais, illustrating that virtue lies between two defects.