Why confine yourself to boring monosyllabic Anglo-Saxon taunts & insults when you can defame, demean, degrade, demolish & damn in the deft language of Cicerco, Martial, Ovid, Cattullus, Horace & others? Now you can impress your friends & devestate your enemies with the filth & wit of your newly-excavated repetoire of classical invective. Usefully arranged in sections for the sexless, gormless, worthless & unscrupulous (etc etc), with special sections on regional taunts & useful threats, the book contains illustrations from classical sources & is immaculately researched by a young Cambridge classics scholar & an expert in the ancient languages of desire & desperation.