to respect you, Sextus, when you behave in such a camp way?'") Another word for buttocks, slightly less common, was natēs, which is generally used only of the buttocks of humans. It seems to have been a more vulgar or colloquial word than clūnēs. In one of the Priapeia epigrams (22, in some editions 21) the god Priapus threatens potential thieves with punishment as follows: ("If any woman steals (from my garden) or a man or a boy,the first must provide her cunt, the second his head, the third his buttocks.") In the Romance languages has been preserved as meaning the buttocks (rather than the anus) in most Romance languages except for Portuguese, which kept the original semantics. It yields the forms culo in Spanish and Italian; in French and Catalan it becomes cul, in Romanian cur, in Vegliot Dalmatian čol, in Sardinian and Sicilian culu, in Portuguese cu and in Galician cu. Its offensiveness varies from one language to another; in French it was incorporated into ordinary words and expressions such as culottes, "breeches", and cul-de-sac. : to fuck , infinitive , perfect , supine , Latin for "to fuck", is richly attested and useful. The etymology of is "obscure". It may be related to "repel, rebut" and , "suppress" or "beat down", and come from a root meaning "beat". is richly attested in all its forms in Latin literature. In one poem (10.81.1) Martial writes, using the supine: ("When two men came one morning to Phyllis for a fuck...") Not only the word itself, but also derived words such as , "fucked out, exhausted from sex" (Catullus 41), (Catullus 29, same meaning), and "to have sex with" (Catullus 37) are attested in Classical Latin literature. The derived noun , "act of intercourse", also exists in Classical Latin, and the , which corresponds to the English epithet "fucker", but lacking the derogatory tone of the English word. The god Priapus says in one poem (Priapeia 63): ("To this (p....) of mine, a girl – I almost added the name –is accustomed to come with her boyfriend") It is also used metaphorically in Catullus 6, which speaks of , funds exhausted, literally "fucked away". , unlike the English word "fuck", was more frequently used in erotic and celebratory senses rather than derogatory ones or insults. A woman of Pompeii wrote the graffito ("I got laid here") and prostitutes, canny at