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This shit is hilarious
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
VII.9 (Eumachia Building, via della Abbondanza); 2048: Secundus likes to screw boys.
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1864: Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!
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>>3231178
Are these literal translations?
Were ordinary Romans seriously this eloquent?
It's hard to imagine, considering so many people in modern developed nations today communicate like fucking oogaboogas, compared to most of what's written there.
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>>3231241
Literacy rate was higher in the Roman Empire (well, probably not everywhere) than nowadays.
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>>3231178
>Go hang yourself!
I'm borrowing that one
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>>3231245
>On April 19th, I made bread
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>>3231245
>"May Love burn in some lonely mountains whoever wants to rape my girl friend!"
Christus-Channus
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>>3231357
The global literacy rate today is somewhere north of 85% compared to maybe 20% in Roman Italy.
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>>3231241
>Were ordinary Romans seriously this eloquent?
latin is not an easily learned language, and Romans were very into oratory, it shouldn't surprise you that even the most average commoner can throw good bants
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>>3231178
lmao
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