- [Footnote: figure of Pulcinello, also the pointed beard (and ears) of the satyrs and
the other priapic demon, just as in general all the protruding parts of the body can be given a masculine significance and all the receding parts or depressions a feminine significance. This applies also to all other animate or inanimate objects. See Maeder: Psycho.-Neurol. Wochenschr., X. Jahrgang. However, this whole connection is more than a little uncertain.]rôn (to bore) is primarily related to the Latin forare and the Greek [Greek: phara/ô] = to plow. Possibly it is an Indo-Germanic root bher with the meaning to bear; Sanscrit bhar-; Greek [Greek: pher]-; Latin fer-; from this Old High German beran, English to bear, Latin fero and fertilis, fordus (pregnant); Greek [Greek: phoro/s]. Walde ("Latin Etym.," s. Ferio) traces forare to the root bher-. Compare with this the phallic symbolism of the plough, which we meet later on.]means to plough and possesses in addition the poetic meaning of impregnate. The Latin arare means merely to plough, but the phrase "fundum alienum arare" means "to pluck cherries in a neighbor's]*
