amedia: (Ancient Geek)
amedia ([personal profile] amedia) wrote2009-03-05 11:32 am

Classical Cheezburger Humor!

And no, I didn't make this one up - I would have spelled Catullus right (or made more words wrong) and used spectat instead of videt. Nonetheless, it's really funny!



by [livejournal.com profile] reasonabsurd on [livejournal.com profile] loltheorists, at this entry.

It translates as "Catullus of the ceiling sees you loving yourself" - as in:




from I Can Has Cheezburger.

[identity profile] amedia.livejournal.com 2009-03-06 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's something along the lines of "a serious armpit-smell is living in your hairy armpits" - "hircus" literally means "goat," but they also used it to describe that particular smell. The Romans were even pickier than our culture about armpit hair - there were armpit-pluckers who worked at the baths for both men and women.