The first hand on a Pompeian wall
1st century · Pompeii, Italy · Scratched on the wall of the Basilica at Pompeii. Below it two other hands added replies. Where one hand ends and the next begins follows Diehl's reading; some scholars divide the lines differently. The spelling is as it stands on the wall.
May whoever reads this never read anything else again.
qui hoc leget, nuncquam posteac aliid legat.Graffito in the Basilica at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 598
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The second hand on a Pompeian wall
1st century · Pompeii, Italy · A reply added by another person just below the first graffito.
May the one who wrote the above never prosper.
nunquam sit salvos qui supra scripsit.Graffito in the Basilica at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 598
The third hand on a Pompeian wall
1st century · Pompeii, Italy · A word added by yet another person under the two graffiti.
You speak the truth.
vere dicis.Graffito in the Basilica at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 598
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