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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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 Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: Ancient graffiti from Pompeii |
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Some of this is really funny. It's interesting to see that people haven't changed all that much over the past 2000 years.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/classes/graffiti.htm
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I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My *beep* has given you up. Now it penetrates men��s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
I.4.5 (House of the Citharist; below a drawing of a man with a large nose); 2375: Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.
I.7.1 (in the vestibule of the House of Cuspius Pansa); 8075: The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison
II.2.3 (Bar of Athictus; right of the door); 8442: I screwed the barmaid
II.3.10 (Pottery Shop or Bar of Nicanor; right of the door); 10070: Lesbianus, you defecate and you write, ��Hello, everyone!��
II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8767: Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.
II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: On April 19th, I made bread
III.4.2 (House of the Moralist); 7698a: Let water wash your feet clean and a slave wipe them dry; let a cloth cover the couch; take care of our linens.
III.4.2 (House of the Moralist); 7698b: Remove lustful expressions and flirtatious tender eyes from another man��s wife; may there be modesty in your expression.
III.4.2 (House of the Moralist); 7698c: [��]postpone your tiresome quarrels if you can, or leave and take them home with you.
III.5.1 (House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door); 7716: To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy.
III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don��t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
V.3.9 (House of Cosmus and Epidia; right of the door); 6702: Aufidius was here. Goodbye
V.5.3 (barracks of the Julian-Claudian gladiators; column in the peristyle); 4289: Celadus the Thracian gladiator is the delight of all the girls
VI.14.20 (House of Orpheus); 4523: I have buggered men
VI.14.37 (Wood-Working Shop of Potitus): 3498: What a lot of tricks you use to deceive, innkeeper. You sell water but drink unmixed wine
VII.2.18 (vicolo del Panattiere, House of the Vibii, Merchants); 3117: Atimetus got me pregnant
VII.9 (Eumachia Building, via della Abbondanza); 2048: Secundus likes to screw boys.
VII.12.18-20 (the Lupinare); 2175: I screwed a lot of girls here.
VII.12.18-20 (the Lupinare); 2185: On June 15th, Hermeros screwed here with Phileterus and Caphisus.
VII.12.18-20 (the Lupinare); 2192: Sollemnes, you screw well!
VII.12.35 (Vico d�� Eumachia, small room of a possible brothel); 2145: Gaius Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of Rufus, screwer of women
VIII.1 (above a bench outside the Marine Gate); 1751: If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1816: Epaphra, you are bald!
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1820: Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1826: Phileros is a eunuch!
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1864: Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1880: The man I am having dinner with is a barbarian.
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1881: Virgula to her friend Tertius: you are disgusting!
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1882: The one who buggers a fire burns his *beep*
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1904: O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I suddenly feel better about all of the inanities on Dave's. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, we're somewhat less permanent. The decor matches the grafitti- their porn lasts longer too. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| What, no "Kilrex hic erat"? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| fac ut gaudeum |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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"On April 19th, I made bread"
For some reason this one made me laugh the most. |
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PaperTiger
Joined: 31 May 2005
Location: Ulaanbataar
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: Last days in the city of Pompeii.... |
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Anyone know where I can download "Last Days of Pompeii" by Nova Mob ?
Limewire sucks verily. |
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