Friday, March 21, 2025

 

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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IV 9839b (Pompeii; tr. Ramsay MacMullen):
I hate poor people. If anyone wants something for nothing, he's a fool. Let him pay up and he'll get it.

abomino paupero(s). quisqui(s) quid gratis rogat, fat(u)us est. aes det et accipiat rem.
See Rudolf Wachter, Pompejanische Wandinschriften (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), p. 332.

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