Pliny explains that this title is borne because of the plant being a sexual restorative to those in advanced years, as explained by Macer:-- "Hoec etiam venerem pulvino subdita tantum Incitat.
But a prejudice against it was entertained for a time as venerem enervans, and therefore mortuorum cibi, "food for the dead.
Lyons, in France, gives his reader to understand, that he knew this mischief procured by a medicine of cantharides, which an unskilful physician ministered his patient to drink ad venerem excitandam.
Nero would have filthy pictures still hanging in his chamber, which is too commonly used in our times, and Heliogabalus, etiam coram agentes, ut ad venerem incitarent: So things may be abused.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "venerem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
