They could have been cold. If you have a penis and scrotum, you know what happens to them when you are cold. That picture of the statue of Laocoön battling sna

They could have been cold. If you have a penis and scrotum, you know what happens to them when you are cold. That picture of the statue of Laocoön battling snakes with his sons in the article, they were probably battling the snakes in some dank, cold cistern right above the gates to Hades.