A dinner-seeker at Pompeii
graffiti writer · Pompeii, Italy · 1st century
Someone who scratched a line about being asked to dinner on the wall of the Basilica at Pompeii. Who it was is not known. This was before Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and buried the town.
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1st century · The Istacidii were a leading family of Pompeii. It is read as a joke by someone angling for a dinner invitation.
Lucius Istacidius, anyone who does not have me to dinner is a barbarian to me.
L. Istacidi at quem non ceno, barbarus ille mihi est.Graffito at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 641
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