A visitor to Pompeii

1st century · Pompeii, Italy · The Lares were the guardian gods kept in every household. The spelling is as it stands on the wall.

We came here full of longing; much more do we long to go, so that we may see our household gods again, O Rome.

venimus hoc cupidi, multo magis hire cupjimus ut liceat nostros visere, Roma, Lares.

Graffito at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 14

In the same thread

February 1529 · Fergana · Kabul · Agra · Even after he had taken India he could not forget the melons and grapes of home

a melon was brought to me; to cut and eat it affected me strangely; I was all tears!

Letter to his friend Khwaja Kalan in Kabul, in the Baburnama · in place of the original: the English translation by Annette Beveridge (1922)

1930 · Showa Japan

I am a wanderer by destiny. I have no home town.

私は宿命的に放浪者である。私は古里を持たない。

Diary of a Vagabond (Horoki), the opening