A tavern customer at Pompeii
graffiti writer · Pompeii, Italy · 1st century
Someone who scratched two lines on a wall at Pompeii grumbling at an innkeeper. Who it was is not known. This was before Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and buried the town.
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1st century · Romans drank their wine mixed with water, and it was a common complaint that taverns watered it too much. The spelling is as it stands on the wall.
May lies like these trip you up one day, innkeeper: you sell water and drink the pure wine yourself.
Talia te fallant utinam medacia, copo:
tu vedes acuam et bibes ipse merum.Graffito at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 636 (CIL IV 3498)
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