Meaning of pondus Judaeus | Babel Free

Definitions

A weight attached to the penis in order to restore the foreskin to someone who has been circumcised, chiefly with reference to Jews in Ancient Rome.

historical

Examples

“They also invented the "Pondus Judaeus," a bronze sheath worn so as to pull on the skin of the preputial fragment to make it re-cover the glans.”

“Epispasm was generally enacted according to Celsus, but also with the aid of the so-called pondus Judaeus or "Jewish weight"; a long, funnel-shaped copper or leather tube encasing the penis and clasping the skin that was drawn down by force of weights.”

“Most of them probably tried the Pondus Judaeus, a funnel-shaped weight made of bronze or copper that was attached to the penile shaft above the glans.”

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