Another thread, and more of my favorite graffiti found in Pompeii's excavations.
1. In the Basilica: Virgula to her friend Tertius: you are disgusting!
1. In the Basilica: Virgula to her friend Tertius: you are disgusting!
2. Triclinium of the house: Restitutus has deceived many girls.
3. House of the Centennial; interior of the house: Once you are dead, you are nothing.
4. Atrium of the House of the Centennial: My lusty son, with how many women have you had sexual relations?
5. House of Poppaeus Sabinus; peristyle: If you felt the fires of love, mule-driver, you would make more haste to see Venus. I love a charming boy; I ask you, goad the mules; let’s go. Take me to Pompeii, where love is sweet. You are mine…
6. On the facade between VIII.5.33 and VIII.5.34.: A copper pot went missing from my shop. Anyone who returns it to me will be given 65 bronze coins (sestertii). 20 more will be given for information leading to the capture of the thief.
7. Nocera Necropolis (on a tomb): Greetings to Primigenia of Nuceria. I would wish to become a signet ring for no more than an hour, so that I might give you kisses dispatched with your signature.
8. In the Basilica: Love dictates to me as I write and Cupid shows me the way, but may I die if god should wish me to go on without you.
9. In the Basilica: Pyrrhus to his colleague Chius: I grieve because I hear you have died; and so farewell.
10. The Lupanar: Here Harpocras had a good screw with Drauca for a denarius.
11. In the Basilica: A small problem gets larger if you ignore it.
12. In a bedroom to the left of the peristyle: Only Marcus Terentus Eudoxsis always supports his friends - he keeps them and protects them and supports them in every way.
13. In the Basilica: No young buck is complete until he has fallen in love.
14. House of the Cabinet Maker; left of the door: Secundus says hello to his Prima, wherever she is. I ask, my mistress, that you love me.
15. On a water distribution tower: Anyone who wants to defecate in this place is advised to move along. If you act contrary to this warning, you will have to pay a penalty.
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