Re: *pu:tium prae-pu:tium sala-pu:tium

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> wrote:
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> "salaputium" -> "salted skin of the dick"
>
> Something very salted (see the salted fishes as an example) starts

to

> dry more quickly and to become smaller and smaller by eliminating

the

> liquids inside so I think that
>
> "a salted skin of the dick" indicates a penis that can never arrive
> in erection -> so an impotent man
>
> In this case the meaning of:
> "salaputium disertum" is=> [what] "an elloquent impotent"
>
> quite 'a strong remark' ...
>
> in that context this means "somebody that has tried to talk with a
> great eloquence, but he is not able to say anything semnificative"
>
> Marius
>

So 'salaputium' means IMPOTENT in the Old Slang Vocabulary of Rome
('salted skin of the dick')

Marius