But while Martial develops his poem simply as a defense of his morals and the permissibility of obscenity in epigram, Panormita mingles this argument with a piquant description of his work's lubricious content: "Elicit hoc cuivis tristi rigidoque cachinnos/cuique, vel Hippolyto, concitat inguen opus" (This work teases loud laughter even from the mirthless; it stirs the member even of Hippolytus) (Herm.