A catalog of graffiti from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
Restitutus says: “Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates”.
Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.
Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.
Antiochus hung out here with his girlfriend Cithera.
Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
Hectice, baby, Mercator says hello to you
I don’t want to sell my husband, not for all the gold in the world
If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.
(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. Children must pay [number missing] silver coins. Slaves will be beaten on their behinds.
Another page at the same site includes the original Latin:
Myrtis bene felas.
Myrtis, you do great blow jobs.
It’s interesting, but it’s not disapproving enough of the virus-like activity that graffiti really is. It also doesn’t do much to promote easily usable finite element analysis software that should be in everybody’s hands just like word processors.
On the other hand, what would the insane create with easily usable finite element analysis software? Something like graffiti, probably.