you can smell it whenever you get an erection.") Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, quotes a letter from Mark Antony to Augustus which contains the sentence: ("Does it make any difference where or in which woman you get hard?") The participle means 'erect'. Martial describes the habit of a certain girl of weighing a lover's penis in her hand (10.55.1): ("Whenever Marulla weighs an erect penis in her fingers...") Martial uses the word ("a hard one") alone to refer to a penis in the following line, mocking a certain Greek philosopher who despite his beard was effeminate (9.47.6): ("You enjoy having a hard one in your soft backside") Another word for "erect" was ("stretched, extended"). Priapus is addressed as in Priāpeia 81, and as being ("heavy with an extended phallus") in Priāpeia 79. An "erection" or "impatience to have sex" was . Horace (Sat. 1.2.116-8) writes: ... ("When your groin swells up, then ifa slave girl or home-reared slave boy is available, on whom you can mount an attackstraightaway, do you prefer to burst with the erection?") Similarly in Priapeia 33.5, the god Priapus says: ("Shameful indeed to do, but so that I don't burst with desire,I shall put down my sickle and my hand will become my girlfriend.") An adjective to describe a penis which refused to become erect was . Ovid (Amōrēs 3.7.65-6): ("But my members lay there as if prematurely dead, shamefully, more languid than yesterday's rose.") And a girlfriend of Horace's chides him with the words (Epodes 12): ("You are less languid with Inachia than with me!") While Catullus (67.23) speaks of an impotent husband in these terms: ("whose little dagger, hanging more flaccid than a tender beet (a vegetable)never raised itself to the middle of his tunic") In the Romance languages has evolved into Sicilian and Italian and South Sardinian . also exists in Spanish. is preserved in some Romance dialects, usually with another meaning; is a sort of stirrup and spur in a Calabrian dialect, possibly named for its shape. Most Romance languages have adopted metaphorical euphemisms as the chief words for the penis; as in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian , obscene for penis, and in Romanian (although is far more common), in Catalan and French , from Latin , "staff", and French ("tail"), from Latin "tail". The Portuguese "penis", first attested in the 10th century, is thought to derive from a Vulgar