If ancient Greece had had television, they would also have had at least seven of them you couldn't say there.
A new book, Depraved English, says the land of Socrates, Plato, and Homer had a considerable share of dirty or naughty words - including one for when your partner's, er, body fragrances, turn you off: ozoamblyrosis.
If you referred to a woman or a man as callipygian, the book says, you were actually saying she or he has a nicely shaped butt. If your lady was bathycolpian, it meant her cleavage was rather deep. And a woman suffering from iatronudia was actually pretending to be ill so she could strip in front of a doctor.
The book was written by Peter Novobatsky and Ammon Shea and is published by St. Martin's Press.
