"here a man is so mutilated that he is neither changed into a woman nor remains a man."

"hic ita amputatur uirilitas, ut nec conuertatur in feminam nec uir relinquatur."

      St. Augustine on "the famous mysteries of Tellus and the Great Mother," City of God VII.24, trans. Dods =CSEL 40.1, p. 338, ll. 5-6.