Eros and Marcus Aurelius
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This page features Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius's views on human sexuality.
In his Meditations, there are two passages on 'vile snivel', by which Aurelius means semen.
- "What is man? That which but the other day when he was conceived was vile snivel; and within few days shall be either an embalmed carcass, or mere ashes."
- "So for coitus, it is but the attrition of an ordinary base entrail, and the excretion of a little vile snivel, with a certain kind of convulsion: according to Hippocrates his opinion."
An alternative translation of the second passage is:
- "Sex is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus"
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