A Posse Ad Esse;

Charlie began taking notes on the "Venus" controversy. Aphrodite and Venus were apparently in a competition for virtue and virility. The Romans wrote Odes... the Greeks wrote what could be loosely termed as Ballads. The Romans had no real appreciation of happy endings... the Greeks wouldn't even LOOK at Roman efforts; the Latin rhymes for Venus were lacking. A creative soul would have figured out a way to name Venus directly, and speak to the virility discussion, where most of the Latin efforts centered on the chastity and virtue of the Roman beauty; they wouldn't even name her as a fellatrice. The Romans refused to even NAME their adversary.

Odd, he observed, you spell THAT word with a 'u!'

He decided to call it an evening. The Romans were a peculiar lot, and the bellicose nature of ALL their colonies could hardly be a coincidence.