Book, Chapter

 1    2,  36|       all around. On the little finger of his left hand he wore
 2    2,  36|         first joint of the next finger, a smaller one which seemed
 3    2,  73|    hummed with him, holding his finger pressed to his lips. Finally,
 4    5, 135|         and, dipping her middle finger into the mixture, she crossed
 5    5, 141|     verse, or declaim; snap the finger of scorn~At the world, yet
 6    5, 158|         and, dipping her middle finger into the mixture, she crossed
 7    5, 159|        the choice of the middle finger, in this instance. Among
 8    5, 159|    Among the Romans, the middle finger was known as the "infamous
 9    5, 159|      was known as the "infamous finger."~Infami digito et lustralibus
10    5, 159|        of being touched by your finger. You need not use your finger,
11    5, 159|   finger. You need not use your finger, merely: take Cestos all
12    5, 159|      posteriors lewdly with the finger, that is, the middle finger
13    5, 159|     finger, that is, the middle finger put forth and the two adjoining
14    5, 159|       in that manner. When this finger was thus applied it signified
15    5, 159|     thus holding out the middle finger, and so it was used as well
16    5, 159|        and hold out your middle finger to him." According to Ramiresius,
17    5, 159|     STREPSIADES: Of the Dactyl (finger)? I know that quite well.~
18    5, 159|     STREPSIADES: Why, 'tis this finger; formerly, when a child,
19    5, 159|         of a metrical foot) and finger. Strepsiades presents his
20    5, 159| Strepsiades presents his middle finger with the other fingers and
21    5, 159|     that the Romans called this finger the "unseemly finger.")~
22    5, 159|       this finger the "unseemly finger.")~SOCRATES: You are as
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