phallus — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

phallus, i, m., = φαλλός, a figure of an obscene shape, carried about at the festival of Bacchus, originally a symbol of the generative power of nature; a phallus, Arn. 5, 176; cf. Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 21.

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