[C18-L] Help with Latin translations

[Wilson Gray]

Definitely good enough for government work.

Back in that day, _concubitus_ may have been thought of as "lying
together" and not as "copulation," but that's just a WAG on my part.

_Usque ad_ = "(all the way) up to," "even unto," like that.

-Wilson

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> I would appreciate comments on whether my translations of the
> following Latin phrases are sufficiently accurate.  Warning (or
> teaser) -- X-rated content follows.
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> "penetratio corporis" = penetration of the body.
>
> "fricatio usque ad effusionem seminis" = friction resulting in
> emission of semen.
>
> "per modum concubitus" = in the manner of copulation.
>
> For the compulsive, these come from letters written in 1642 by
> "reverend elders" of the Plymouth Colony to Gov. Bellingham of
> Massachusetts, in response to his question about under what
> circumstances acts of sodomy were capital offenses.  From William
> Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (Knopf,
> 1952), pages 404 and 407.
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> Thanks!
> Joel
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