Crossword-Solution: PODEX 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

When the Isfahan man mocked Shaykh Sa’adi by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a lotá, a brass cup with a wide-necked opening used in the Hammam, the witty poet turned its aperture upwards and thereto likened the well-abused podex of an Isfahani youth.

Mount up thy Phlegon, Muse, and testify, How Saturn, sitting in an ebon cloud, Disrobed his podex, white as ivory, And through the welkin thunder'd all aloud.

Just come now and hear me say it." It is probable that her Grace and the doctor had devised this plan in order to shame Sidonia, by showing her how even a little child could repeat it; but she took it angrily, and, calling him over, said, "Yes; come--I will hear you your catechism." And as the little boy came up close beside her, she slung him across her knee, pulled down his hose, and--oh, shame!--whipped his Serene Highness upon his princely _podex_, that it would have melted the heart of a stone.

This was the Prince whom, we may remember, Sidonia had whipped with her irreverent hands upon his princely _podex,_ when he was a little boy.

Scribere debueras hîc podex est meus, hic os; Nunc tu cum pedas atque loquare simul, Discere non valeo, quid venerit inde vel inde; Vipera namque infra sibilat atque supra.