that the supporters of the anti-government rebel Catiline included ("whatever shameless man, adulterer, or glutton had ruined his ancestral property by hand, stomach, or 'tail'") Commenting on this passage, St Augustine notes that Sallust's use of the term in this phrase was not offensive. The word did not survive into Romance, however, and occurs only once in a Pompeian inscription. Juvenal, showing his knack for describing grossly obscene matters without using taboo words, writes as follows in one of his satires (9.43-4): ("Or do you think it is an easy or straightforward thing to drive a proper-sized 'tail'inside someone's guts and there meet with yesterday's dinner?") Another euphemism for the penis was ("tail"), which occurs twice in Horace, and continues today in the French derivative ("tail" or "penis"). In one place in his Satires (Serm. 2.7.50) Horace writes: ("Whichever girl receives the blows of my swelling 'tail',or when I'm on my back sexily rides my 'horse' with her buttocks,sends me away neither with a bad reputation nor worried thata richer or more handsome guy might piss in the same place.") For the metaphorical use of ("to piss"), see below. The words ("nerve" or "sinew") and In one of Horace's Epodes (12) a woman boasts of one of her lovers, Coan Amyntas, ("on whose indomitable groin a sinew grows, more constant than a new tree clings to the hills.") or or , which meant a phallic image or amulet in the form of a penis, were also sometimes used as euphemisms for the penis. And one of the characters in Petronius's Satyricon, Ascyltus, is described as follows: ("For he had a weight on his groins so big that you'd think the man himself was just an appendage of his phallus.") or Yet another euphemism is or or , which literally means the stem or stalk of a plant (such as a cabbage, onion, or vine). This word was used by the satirist Lucilius and by the medical writer Celsus (6.18.2). In the same passage (6.18.2), Celsus refers to the foreskin as "skin", and to the glans as "acorn". Martial also uses the word in an obscene pun (12.75.3): ("Secundus has buttocks fed with acorns") The word seems to have been children's slang for the penis; compare English pee-pee. It appears in Martial 11.71: ("Natta sucks the pee-pee of his athlete,compared to whom, Priapus is a eunuch.") For , see on above.