A visitor to Pompeii
graffiti writer · Pompeii, Italy · 1st century
Someone who had come to Pompeii from Rome, apparently with companions. Nothing is known beyond the two lines left on a wall. This was before Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and buried the town.
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1st century · 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
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