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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.

• Beautiful Sabinus, Hermeros loves you.
• Caesius Fidelis loves Mecon from Nuceria.
• Cosmus, Equitia’s slave, is a big pervert (cinaedus) and cocksucker, with legs spread apart.
• Narcissus* is the biggest cocksucker.  
• Whoever fucks a boy on fire hurts his cock.  
• SECUNDUS** has fucked boys till they hurt.
• I want to fuck a boy.  
• Vesbinus is a pervert (cinaedus);Vitalio has fucked him.  
• Here I fuck Rufus, dear to … Eat your heart out, girls! Farewell, stuck-up cunt!
• Menander, of elegant habits, costs two nickels.  
• Albanus is a pervert (cinaedus).
• Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Felix sucks for a nickel.
• Felix costs four nickels, Florus ten.
• Dick for sale: $1.
• Januarius, you lick cock.  
• On the ninth of September, Q. Postumius asked A. Attius to allow me to fuck him.
• Martial, you suck Proculus.
• Secundus is a cocksucker of rare ability.
• L. Habonius plows Caesonius Felix and puts it in his mouth.

 

 

* was originally written in Greek and thus probably meant he was a slave or a freed man.

** name was written in big letters, probably indicating that the inscription was meant as a boast.