章节名:Early Imperial Rome
页码:第422页
2013-10-25 13:14:01
If you read these graffiti and/or things like Martial, you'll probably get an impression that we Romans were really busy fucking everybody all day. You know what, it's probably easier to conquer the Carthaginians or the Germans in bed than on the battlefield. And that could've spared a lot of good-looking boys!
9.16 Selected Pompeian graffiti = CIL 4
In 79 C.E. the sudden eruption of Mt. Vesuvius covered Pompeii and several other towns south of Naples with lava, ashes, and mud, preserving them virtually intact until modern times. Graffiti is found throughout the town, some of it sexual in nature.
[1256] Beautiful [45] Sabinus, Hermeros [46] loves you.
[1812] Caesius Fidelis loves Mecon from Nuceria. [47]
[1825] Cosmus, Equitia’s slave, is a big pervert (cinaedus) and cocksucker, with legs spread apart.
[1825a] Narcissus [48] is the biggest cocksucker.
[1882] Whoever fucks a boy on fire hurts his cock.
[2048] SECUNDUS has fucked boys till they hurt. [49]
[2210] I want to fuck a boy.
[2319b] Vesbinus is a pervert (cinaedus); Vitalio has fucked him.
[3932] Here I fuck Rufus, dear to . . . Eat your heart out, girls! Farewell, stuck-up cunt!
[4024] Menander, of elegant habits, costs two nickels.
[4917] Albanus is a pervert (cinaedus).
[4976] Sodom and Gomorrah. [50]
[5408] Felix sucks for a nickel. [51]
[7339] Felix costs four nickels, Florus ten.
[8483] Dick for sale: $1.
[8512] Januarius, you lick cock.
[8805] On the ninth of September, Q. Postumius asked A. Attius to allow me to fuck him.
[9027] Secundus is a cocksucker of rare ability.
[8841] Martial, you suck Proculus.
[10232a] L. Habonius plows Caesonius Felix and puts it in his mouth.
45. This epithet transliterates the Greek word kalos, found in so many Greek inscribed love acclamations.
46. The name also appears as that of a freedman in Petronius. It is Greek in form.
47. Nuceria was a nearby town to the south of Pompeii. Fidelis could also be an epithet meaning “the faithful.”
48. Like Cosmus in the previous fragment, the name is Greek, suggesting servile or freed-man status.
49. The name is written in larger letters, suggesting that this inscription was meant as a boast.
50. This inscription attests either a Christian or, more likely, Jewish community at Pompeii that did not approve of the prevailing sexual customs.
51. The monetary values here are relative, based on one as equal to five cents.
9.17 Greek graffito from Stabiae
Stabiae was a fashionable resort immediately to the south of Pompeii, also destroyed in 79 C.E.
If a beautiful boy doesn’t give his ass to be fucked, may he not get a fuck when he falls in love with a beautiful girl.引自 Early Imperial Rome
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