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The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum

49 points by smcleod 5y ago

cema 5y ago
Somehow the passage of time gives it a modicum of respectability.
- smcleod 5y ago
  I know right, this one still cracks me up every time I read it: "The one who buggers a fire burns his penis"
  - fibonachos 5y ago
    Made even funnier by the fact that there’s a Reddit sub dedicated to this very topic. /r/dontputyour****inthat I guess penis humor is timeless.
nelox 5y ago
Truely vulgar
- Tagbert 5y ago
  As in Vulgar Latin?
  - nelox 5y ago
    A facetious play on how both graffiti and pornography have been deemed morally objectionable or in poor taste, from which the masses should be protected.
dmix 5y ago
The humour of young men never changes.
- OneTimePetes 5y ago
  The moment you realize you are a bred by evolution into a drug addicted mammal, expected to either vanish or develop a ego big enough to mount another mammal and convince the universe that this should go on forever - you are fucked, in the head and possibly in any other regard for a small reward.
  - dmix 5y ago
    That’s a great way of putting it.
jayess 5y ago
It's annoying that the original Latin is not provided. I'd love to know the original words used for some of these terms (such as buggering). EDIT: It looks like this link is just a marketing site for a jewellery store. The original that this site stole from is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170221135226/http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20170221135226/http://www.pompei...
- edflsafoiewq 5y ago
  Here's a site with the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel.php?s_sprache=en&p_belegstelle=CIL+04,+02375 https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel.php?s_sprache=en&p_beleg.... Replace the last four digits in the URL with the number before the quote on the site you linked to see the Latin. "Bugger" is probably gonna be "paedico". I do find the whole "Classics scholar translates back-alley graffiti" vibe of the translation hilarious.

49 points by smcleod 5y ago

cema 5y ago

Somehow the passage of time gives it a modicum of respectability.

smcleod 5y ago
I know right, this one still cracks me up every time I read it: "The one who buggers a fire burns his penis"
- fibonachos 5y ago
  Made even funnier by the fact that there’s a Reddit sub dedicated to this very topic. /r/dontputyour****inthat I guess penis humor is timeless.

nelox 5y ago

Truely vulgar

Tagbert 5y ago
As in Vulgar Latin?
- nelox 5y ago
  A facetious play on how both graffiti and pornography have been deemed morally objectionable or in poor taste, from which the masses should be protected.

dmix 5y ago

The humour of young men never changes.

OneTimePetes 5y ago
The moment you realize you are a bred by evolution into a drug addicted mammal, expected to either vanish or develop a ego big enough to mount another mammal and convince the universe that this should go on forever - you are fucked, in the head and possibly in any other regard for a small reward.
- dmix 5y ago
  That’s a great way of putting it.

jayess 5y ago

It's annoying that the original Latin is not provided. I'd love to know the original words used for some of these terms (such as buggering). EDIT: It looks like this link is just a marketing site for a jewellery store. The original that this site stole from is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170221135226/http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20170221135226/http://www.pompei...

edflsafoiewq 5y ago
Here's a site with the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel.php?s_sprache=en&p_belegstelle=CIL+04,+02375 https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel.php?s_sprache=en&p_beleg.... Replace the last four digits in the URL with the number before the quote on the site you linked to see the Latin. "Bugger" is probably gonna be "paedico". I do find the whole "Classics scholar translates back-alley graffiti" vibe of the translation hilarious.