Their defiance survives linguistically: In Arabic, the “top” sodomite is luti, meaning “of [the people of] Lot.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Notum est enim porcos, cum hortos amænissimos intrarint, nec lilium nec rosas aut flores alioqui pulcherrimos et suauissimos decerpere: Sed rostro in coenum prono, quicquid est luti et stercoris volutare, vertere et inuertere, donec impurissima, hoc est, suo genio apprimè congruentia eruant, vbi demum solida voluptate pascuntur. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Notum est enim porcos, cum hortos am鎛issimos intrarint, nec lilium nec rosas aut flores alioqui pulcherrimos et suauissimos decerpere: Sed rostro in coenum prono, quicquid est luti et stercoris volutare, vertere et inuertere, donec impurissima, hoc est, suo genio apprim� congruentia eruant, vbi demum solida voluptate pascuntur. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"I'll veil it, my son," said he, laying his hand on my shoulder, "in the decent obscurity of a learned language, '_Canis reversus ad suum vomitum et sus lota in volutabro luti_.'" ❋ William John Locke (1896)
I was old enough, or perhaps rather I had gathered experience enough, to feel a shock of disgust at Paragot's return _in volutabro luti_. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
[1665] "Hirundines luto construunt, stramine roborant: si quando inopia est luti, madefactae multa aqua pennis pulverem spargunt." ❋ Unknown (1895)
The bicycle, the luti, and the mandril occupy the back part of the large room, where several lamps and farnooses envelop this attractive and drawing combination with a garish and stagy glow, so that they can be seen to advantage by the throngs of eager visitors. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
The luti plays a sort of "whangadoodle" tune on a guitar, and manipulates the string so as to make the deer keep time to the tune. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
This is the finale of the performance, and the luti comes and sets his skull-cap in front of me for ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Now and then, when the crowd with no money to spend becomes too clamorous about the doorway, the luti goes to the assistance of the guards, and giving the mandril the length of his chain, chases the people away. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
The luti sings doubtful love songs to the accompaniment of finger-strumming on the drum, and the mandril now and then condescends to stand on its head, grunt loudly in response to questions, spin round and round like a dancing dervish, and otherwise give proof of his intelligence and accomplishments. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
About ten o'clock the khan-jees make me up quite a comfortable shake-down, and tired out with the tough journey over the mountains and the worrying persecutions of the afternoon, I fall asleep while yet the house is doing a thriving trade; the luti singing, the mandril grunting, kalians bubbling, and people talking, all fail to keep me awake. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
(How much money did the King give you?) "I showed the Shah the bicycle, and the Shah showed me the lions, and tigers, and panthers at Doshan Tepe," I tell them; and a knowing customer, called Meshedi Ali, enlightens them still further by telling them I am not a luti to receive money for letting the ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Still, luti or no luti, the people think I ought to have received a present. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
A rival attraction already occupies the field in the person of a Tabreez Turkish luti with a performing rib-nosed mandril and a drum. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Eyots, who were absent in their fields when I arrived, come crowding around the store in the evening, bothering me to ride; the shop-keeper bids them wait till my departure in the morning, telling them I am not a luti, riding simply to let people see. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Supper eaten and the dishes cleared, an amateur luti from among the villagers produces a tambourine and castanets, and, taking the middle of the room, proceeds to amuse the company by singing extempore love songs in praise of the bride and groom to tambourine accompaniment and pendulous swayings of the body. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
The luti himself is filled with envy and covetousness at the immense drawing powers of the bicycle; and in a burst of confidence wants to know if I am an "Ingilis lut;" at the same time placing his forefingers together as an intimation that if I am we ought by all means to form a combination and travel the country together. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
