Thursday, February 09, 2006

A gallery of walls with stuff written on

On the Wall

Someone has assembled an online gallery of walls, most adorned with some interesting graffiti ("Invade Washington!"). There's something about a blank wall that brings out the scribbler in people -- and that was just as true thousands of years ago, apparently. Ancient Graffiti on the walls of Pompeii translates some interesting examples, including:

Suspirium puellarum Celadus thraex
Celadus the Thracier makes the girls moan!

Virgula Tertio suo: indecens es
Virgula to her Tertius: you are one horny lad!

Miximus in lecto. Fateor, peccavimus, hospes
Si dices: Quare? Nulla fuit matella.

We have pissed in our beds. Host, I admit that we shouldn't have done this.
If you ask: Why? There was no potty.

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