Attached Link: http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin_Vulgar/Texts/Pompeii_Graffiti.html

I've visited the Graffiti Wall maybe 5 times since I've been a Renderosity member. I've even posted something on it 1 or 2 times -- I forget how many.

It's been a few months since my last check-in with the GW.

You know -- one of the interesting discoveries uncovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (yes, the town that was destroyed by Vesuvius) had to do with the Latin idea of graffiti. And this graffiti was actually painted on a wall.........

It seems that the ancients had a more literary bent than we do today -- at least some of the time. Roman graffiti expressed such sentiments as "Someone at whose table I do not dine, Lucius Istacidius, is a barbarian to me."

Here's a link to the ancient graffiti of Pompeii -- listed both in the original Latin and translated into English.

The more things change......the more they stay the same.

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