inguina

In the Beowulf poem the king of the Danes is called eodor Inguina, the protection of the Ing�vones, and fre� Inguina, the lord of the Ing�vones.

Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me Ovid's imitation here of Ecl VI 74-75 'Scyllam ... candida succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris'; the rates and nautae of Ovid's line 26 are in lines 76 and 77 of the Virgilian passage.

"Aut Scyllam Nisi, quam fama secuta est, Candida succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris, Dulichias vexâsse rates, et gurgite in alto Ah timidos nautas canibus lacerâsse marinis?"

Ut picus avis admittatur, qui acuto rostra intra ipsorum inguina foramen effodiat, constituerunt: ipsismet caracaracolibus hominibus callosis, feminas apertis cruribus tenentibus.

Then I began, "If, madam, you design to be more severe with us, be yet so kind as to dispatch it quickly; for whate'er our offence be, it is not so hainous that we ought to be rack'd to death for it": Upon which her woman, whose name was Psyche, spread a coverlet on the floor, Sollicitavit inguina mea mille iam mortibus frigida.