Roman sexuality as framed by Latin literature has been described as phallocentric. The phallus was supposed to have powers to ward off the evil eye and other malevolent supernatural forces. It was used as an amulet "(fascinum)", many examples of which survive, particularly in the form of wind chimes "(tintinnabula)". Some scholars have even interpreted the plan of the Forum Augustum as phallic, "with its two semi-circular galleries or "exedrae" as the testicles and its long projecting forecourt as the shaft".