feces

To quote but a few examples, our sympathy toward the poised Coluccio Salutati losing all his gravitas in biting Antonio Loschi ("spurcissimorum spurcissime, stercus et egeries Lombardorum, vel potius Longobardorum" 26) is counterbalanced by the crassness of Poggio Bracciolini, who informs us that the young body of his loathed adversary, Tommaso Morroni, was once used as latrina publica (58).

In a letter to George Sand, Flaubert labeled him "stercoraceous," from the Latin stercus, meaning dung.

Qui intra stercus fuderit, multae a(sses) IIII d(abit) (Suppl.