dear onesnow on crossroads and in alleys'peels' the grandsons of magnanimous Remus.") Some, noting that in Italian the phrases cavar la pelle, scorticare ("debark") can mean "strip someone of their money", and similar uses of ("to shear") and ("to skin") in Latin, have argued that Catullus is also using the word in a non-sexual sense; that is, Lesbia is acting like a prostitute and fleecing the spendthrift Roman young men () of their money.Muse (2009), pp. 310-11. and : to waggle () and ( etc.) are basic Latin obscenities that have no exact English equivalents. referred to the actions of the female partner in sexual intercourse (i.e. grinding or riding on a penis); as, similarly to the case in English, , which is often translated "fuck", primarily referred to the male action (i.e. thrusting, pounding, slamming). referred to the similar activity of the passive partner in anal sex. Etymology Both of these verbs are of fairly obscure origin. Unlike some of the vocabulary of homosexuality in Latin (, ), seems not to be of Greek origin. Francis A. Wood relates it to an Indo-European root *kweu- or *qeu-, relating to a variety of back and forth motions. Usage always refers to a male taking the bottom role in anal sex. Martial 3.95 contains the phrase: ("But you get buggered and you wiggle your arse so prettily, Naevolus.") appears to have had a similar meaning, but to have been used of the female. Martial writes of a Spanish dancing-girl (who he suggests would make a suitable present for someone): ("She waggles so tremulously, she arouses so charmingly, that she has made Hippolytus himself into a masturbator") Again Martial 10.68: ("Could you possibly be prettier as you grind? You learn easily, and could do everything they do in Corinth; but you'll never quite be Lais, Laelia.") Lais was a famous prostitute or courtesan, and Corinth was the site of a major temple of Aphrodite; the temple employed more than a thousand cult prostitutes. Synonyms and metaphors These words have few synonyms or metaphors, and belong almost to a sort of technical vocabulary. In the Romance languages Both words seem to have been lost in Romance. : to masturbate This word is found twice in the poet Martial, but apparently not in earlier writers. Martial writes in one poem (11.104): ("The Phrygian slaves used to masturbate behind the doors whenever Hector's wife sat