What wouid Venus say?

"Aphro-di-te is -what-I- pre-fer.
Those Romans invented Venus when
my proper name wouldn't fit on a slab.

I'm not being critical...They kept me alive.

In their own... Roman way.
But their sense of metaphor...


It was about acqueducts, mostly.
Venus describes the fulfillment of
desire: Venus...venerum...venia...




Oh, I know about desire--but it wasn't a name for
anybody until they decided it sounded better--
Easier and quicker to say, I guess.
For a Latin tongue.
Huh.
Latin tongues."