Macrobius describes a masculine form of "Venus" (Aphrodite) who received cult on Cyprus; she had a beard and male genitals, but wore women's clothing. The deity's worshippers cross-dressed, men wearing women's clothes, and women men's. The Latin poet Laevius wrote of worshipping "nurturing Venus" whether female or male "(sive femina sive mas)". The figure was sometimes called "Aphroditos". In several surviving examples of Greek and Roman sculpture, she is found in the attitude "anasyrmene", from the Greek verb "anasyromai", "to pull up one's clothes". The love goddess lifts her garments to reveal her masculine attribute, male genitalia, a gesture that traditionally held apotropaic or magical power.