20 JULY 1985, Page 28

Mooning

Sir: As the subject of 'mooning' at Greenham Common has raised its ugly head (?) in your columns (Home life, 13 July), may I submit to you an epigram (veiled in the decent obscurity of a learned language) inspired by a recent incident that occasioned a lady's protest?

Terga tuens duri versa ad se maids olim, `ei mihi, nil gratum est' dixerat 'anus' anus. Colin Haycraft

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