alluded to, but does not appear, in literary sources, except in the Priapeia 79, which calls it , the "poor little clitoris". It does, however, appear in graffiti. Usage Not even the poets Catullus and Martial, whose frankness is notorious, ever refer to landīca. In a letter to a friend, Cicero discusses which words in Latin are potentially obscene or subject to obscene punning, and there hints at the word by quoting an unintentionally obscene utterance made in the Senate: "shall I say that this or that was the greater fault?" with echoing the forbidden word. Note that the "m" at the end of was pronounced like "n" before the following "d." The word is found in Roman graffiti: ("I seek Fulvia's clitoris") appears on a leaden projectile found at Perugia left over from the Perusine War, while a derivative word is found in Pompeii: ("Euplia (is) loose and has a large clitoris"). It also occurs in Priapeia 78.5 (in some versions 79.5), where a girl who has received the attentions of a is described as suffering from ("cracks in her clitoris"). ("But may the gods and goddesses deny your teeth any food, you who licked the cunt of my neighbouring girlfriend, because of whom this brave girl who has never told a lie, and who used to come running quickly to me, now, poor thing, swears she can hardly walk because of the grooves in her clitoris.") The word also occurs twice in a medical context in a 5th-6th century Latin translation of Soranus of Ephesus's book on gynaecology. Fay (1907) suggests one possible etymology as ("a little gland"). Synonyms and metaphors Martial's epigram 1.90 alludes to a woman who uses her clitoris as a penis in a lesbian encounter, referring to it as her "prodigious Venus": ("You dare to rub two cunts together and your prodigious Venus pretends to be a man.") In the Satires of Juvenal it is referred to euphemistically as a crista, "crest" in this line (6.420), describing a lady's massage after an exercise session: ("And the cunning masseur presses his fingers on her 'crest'and causes the top of his mistress's thigh to cry aloud") In the Romance languages survived in Old French landie (extremely rare), and in Romanian lindic. : the anus The basic Latin word for the anus was . Though not very common, it occurs in both Catullus and Martial, and is