i want to share with you some of my favourite graffiti from Pompeii
“Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!“
“Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.“
“We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.“
“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.“
“On April 19th, I made bread.“
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I have buggered men.“
“If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“
“It took 640 paces to walk back and forth between here and there ten times.“
“Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!“
“Epaphra is not good at ball games.”
“Two friends were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.“
“Secundus likes to screw boys.“
I’ve always loved these. Humanity has never fucking changed.
More glorious inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum!
– You shit. Up against a wall.
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Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place
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Antiochus hung out here with his girlfriend Cithera.
– At Nuceria, I won 8552 denarii by gaming—fair play!
– Here slept Vibius Restitutus all by himself his heart filled with longings for his Urbana.
– Health to you, Victoria, and wherever you are may you sneeze
– O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.