“...the Englishman proposed to test precocious Giacomo’s mettle with a bawdy Latin riddle: why was the Latin word for vagina—cunnus—masculine and the Latin word for penis—mentula—feminine? Where was the logic in that? Giacomo claimed to have replied, in Latin pentameter, “Because the slave takes his name from his master.” (Disce quod a domino nomina servus habet.)”