Penis Aethiopicus Asiaticus

lit. ‘asian aethiopian p-n-s’, this is a latin term for the legendary black dravidian p-n-s. ancient graeco-roman authors have ascribed this ‘eastern ethiopian p-n-s’ a mythical size, right from the days of the h–ry achaemenids. in this they followed the overawed vedic indo-aryans, who termed the indigenous dravidas as ‘sishna-deva’ (‘p-n-s-gods’ or priapes). thus, ctesias, the greek physician of artaxerxes memnon, is often quoted:

“in the middle of india (saith ctesias) there are black men, they are call’d pygmies, using the same language, as the other indians; they are very little, the tallest of them being but two cubits, & most of them but a cubit & a half high. they have very long hair, reaching down to their knees & lower; & a beard larger than any man’s. … {p 24} … they have a p-n-s so long, that it reaches to the ancle, & the thickness is proportionable. they are flat nosed & ill favoured. … three thousand men of these pygmies do attend the king of india. they are good archers; they are very just, & use the same laws as the indians do. … ” – ‘philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients’ edward tyson. ed bertram c a windle. london: d nutt, 1894, p 23-24. also in: ‘the anatomy of a pygmie’ edward tyson. 2 ed. london: t osborne, 1751, p 9.

later, john mandeville described dravida macrophallism in lanka & other indian islands (‘a treatise of all the degrees & symptoms of the venereal disease’ john marten. 6 ed. london: s crouch 1708, p 367)
1) roman: by caesar! that south indian aethiope has a giant p-n-s aethiopicus asiaticus!

2) “connections between blackness & hypers-xuality can be found as far back as cl-ssical antiquity. in fragments preserved in photius’ (c 820-c 892) bibliotheca the fifth-century bce physician ctesias wrote about black-colored pygmies in india, ‘who are saddle-nosed & deformed, have a veretrum so great & long, that it hangs down even unto their ankles.’ 51 {51. … this english translation of fragment 72 by ctesias comes from john bulwer’s 1653 anthropometamorphosis. the quotation proved somewhat popular & edward tyson included steph-n-s’s greek & latin as well as his own translation in 1699 in his book on pygmies. interestingly, where bulwer left veretrum untranslated, tyson did translate it as p-n-s. he even capitalized it & put it in italics. bulwer announces the section with the marginal reference, ‘pygmaei mango veretro.’ by the early twentieth century, the inclusion of such a scandalous line must have seemed inappropriate & it does not appear in the spck-sponsored ed. translated by j h freese. see john bulwer anthropometamorphosis: man transform’d or the artificial changeling (london: william hunt, 1653), 404; photius myriobiblon, e bibliotheke (geneva: paul estienne, 1612), frag 72.}” – ‘the curse of ham in the early modern era: the bible and the justifications for slavery’ david mark whitford. burlington, vt: ashgate publ.g ltd, 2009, p 123.