
The Writing on The Wall
The TLS Podcast
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The Virgil in Pompeii Fragment
The biggest proportion of them comes from the inside of rich houses. The likely writers are posh schoolboys who've been learning Virgil at school in Pompeii. If you want to write on your mum and dad's wall it's better to write a bit of Virgil, you know you probably get left hold off for it. Better Virgil than Catullus because you really get told about that. No sex in this.
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