marketing, appear to have written other graffiti complimenting their customers for their sexual prowess: ("Lucky boy, you fuck well"); ("Victorious, best wishes to one who fucks well"). It is famously used in Catullus 32: ("but you remain at home and prepare for usnine acts of fucking, one after the other.") in its active voice was used of women only when it was imagined that they were taking the active role thought appropriate to the male partner by the Romans. The woman in Martial 7.70 is described as a , a lesbian. ("Lesbian of all lesbians, Philaenis,you are right to call the woman you fuck, your 'girlfriend'.") Other more neutral synonyms for in Latin include , literally "to enter", as in this sentence from Suetonius, supposedly from a letter written by Mark Antony (lover of Queen Cleopatra) to his brother-in-law Octavian (later to become the Emperor Augustus): ("What has changed you? Is it because I'm sleeping with the queen? ... So is Drusilla the only woman you sleep with?") The word , literally "to go with," whence Latin and English coitus, is also used euphemistically for sexual intercourse, but it is not exactly a synonym for . It can be used for both men and women, and also of animals and birds. Another word found on Pompeian inscriptions was , which appears to be a borrowing from the Greek () "loosen". A Pompeian inscription says ("Dionysius is allowed to fuck whenever he wants to"). The Latin word appears to be used in the same sense in Priapeia 31: ("these weapons of my belly will relax you" (of ). Adams (1982) lists a large number of other euphemisms for the sexual act, such as this one from Juvenal (6.126): ("And lying on her back she absorbed the blows of all and sundry") In the Romance languages , a core item of the lexicon, lives on in most of the Romance languages, sometimes with its sense somewhat weakened: Catalan fotre, French foutre, Spanish joder, Portuguese foder, Galician foder, Romanian fute (futere), Italian fottere. A famous ribald song in Old Occitan sometimes attributed to the troubadour William IX of Aquitaine reads: Tant las fotei com auziretz:Cen e quatre vint et ueit vetz,<br/ >Q'a pauc no-i rompei mos corretzE mos arnes ("I fucked them as much as you will hear:a hundred and eighty-eight times.I most nearly broke my equipment-- and my tool.") : to sodomise