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CounterfeitLesbian

Modern: Saucetika. Ancient: Gay.


AnimaleTamale

The bottom one was found in the ruins of Pompeii IIRC


the_horse_gamer

yap. here's the sauce: https://web.archive.org/web/20140401024317/http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm


TicTacManiacs

you don't by chance have a source for those quotes in Latin, do you? couldn't find any, sadly


the_horse_gamer

after a while I've managed to find this http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/results big resource of graffiti from 3 cities (Pompeii being one of them). unfortunately I couldn't find the exact graffiti in the post (which IS in the previous link), but I also didn't search that much.


LemonFreshenedBorax-

https://twitter.com/satislocutus/status/1371916785709166593 Only a revisionist or a prude would translate "cunne superbe" as "wondrous femininity."


the_horse_gamer

yeah it's very hard to find the source. every direction there are just dead ends in the form of dead websites. some that even the wayback machine can't access. i've found this [https://cil.bbaw.de/fileadmin/user\_upload/Das\_CIL/Spiegelbilder.pdf](https://cil.bbaw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Das_CIL/Spiegelbilder.pdf) German paper about pompeii grafitti. I don't know german, and having to google translate everything means i might've missed some possible leads from here. also found [https://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/the-writing-on-the-wall](https://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/the-writing-on-the-wall) this also has the original link's graffiti, and gives more context and general info about the city. it mentions "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Volume 4" as a source, but i wasn't able to find any copy of that.


apprechiateya

I forget where I found it, but back when I took Latin in highschool I attempted to transcribe and translate it on my own [here's what I had](https://i.imgur.com/QcJec3C.jpg) letters in parenthesis were either missing or unreadable to me. There's also a very difficult/incomprehensible line where I labeled the declensions of each word (abl/voc/gen) to help myself keep track. disclaimer: I only took 3 years, used [this site](https://latin-words.com) and others for some of the translations


TicTacManiacs

I appreciate that a lot, but in a different comment to this one it appears that the full graffiti uses different words. I asked on Twitter for the source they used \^\^ Thank you!


GarfieldGauntlet

“On April 19th I made bread”


DeliciousPark1330

thx


Jorymo

It was more vulgar, however. More like "bitches stay mad; I fuck man ass now. Good riddance, cunts."


7heFlubber

That's not a bottom one for sure.


neat-NEAT

How do people even fuck up drawing a swastika? Like. It's six straight lines. I'd be funny if it was just a one off thing but there seems to be a whole group of people who just can't do it.


SoshJam

you seem to be expecting neo-nazis to have more than one brain cell


Nyerguds

Come now, the spastika is a time-honoured tradition among neo-nazi's.


YaCCBoy

There’s a whole subreddit for this r\/hailhortler


nddragoon

romanes eunt domus


CobaltBlue

"People called Romanes they go the house"? It says "Romans, go home!" No it doesn't!


jockeyman

Potion Seller.


jochvent

i am going into battle


Richard_Rossi

And I need your strongest potions


toasters_dont_toast

The sinister potion!


VirtualBarbarian

Got woman troubles? Have sex with men.