sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2010-04-28 05:50 pm (UTC)

Could "Narcissus Fellator Maximus" also be translated as "Narcissus [is] a huge cocksucker"?

Absolutely. Fellator is an insult as well as a trade description; graffiti of this type could be real advertisements or praise for the services of a prostitute (likelier for inscriptions found inside the lupanar or specifying a price, although the latter doesn't exclude the your-mom-does-it-for-five-dollars school of communication) or they could be exactly what you read in bus stations. I mean, I have no idea how to interpret this one:

Isidorum aedilum oro vos faciatis
optime cunnlincet


(CIL IV 1383)

Vote Isidorus for aedile
He licks cunt the best


But I think it's brilliant that it exists. It's like finding out that classical statues were painted.

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