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[–] UdeRecife 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wonderful. Loved your explanation. Do you have sources for that Juvenal poem?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fuck me, fixed it. It's Martial, not Juvenal, I was mistaken.

In omnibus Vacerra quod conclavibus

Consumit horas et die toto sedet,

Cenaturit Vacerra , non cacaturit.

Epigrams, Book 11, Epigram 77

A poetic translation being given as

In privies Vacerra consumes the hours;

the whole day does he sit;

Vacerra wants to dine,

he does not want to shit

[–] UdeRecife 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks. No harm done. I also mix up authors names at times.

Thanks for the precise references. I love learning about ancient ways. Some parts of their lives seem so alien to us today.