Classical Cheezburger Humor!

[amedia]

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 reasonabsurd on loltheorists, at this entry.

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




from I Can Has Cheezburger.

Comments

[nonniemous.livejournal.com]

ROFLOL! And I know WHY you would have used "spectat" rather than "videt!" *g*

ETA: Now we just need to make a LOL cat of "hircus gravis in alis hirsutis vestris vivit."

[chorale.livejournal.com]

As I am a non-classicist, could you please translate "hircus gravis...?" I am filled with curiosity. Thanks!

[amedia.livejournal.com]

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.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!!

There's something about that in Ovid, isn't, when he's begging the ladies of Rome to make sure they shave keep their armpits plucked?