phallus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

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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