A lover on a Pompeian wall
graffiti writer · Pompeii, Italy · 1st century
Someone who scratched two lines about love on a wall 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 · A couplet found again and again on the walls of Pompeii. This copy is written as the words were spoken, not as they were spelled in books, and is given as it stands on the wall.
Whoever loves, may he fare well; may he perish who does not know how to love; may he perish twice over, whoever forbids love.
Quisquis ama valia, peria qui nosci amare,
bis tanti peria, quisquis amare vota.Graffito at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 594
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