Pompeii graffiti being translated into Neapolitan

May 08, 2018 1129

Journalist, writer and scholar Carlo Avvisati has continued with his project to translate ancient Roman graffiti found at Pompeii from Latin into Neapolitan dialect with the publication of a second piece on Facebook.

The new translation regards writing at the 'workshop of Successus' which is considered one of the most poetic samples of graffiti found in almost 300 years of excavations. It reads "Nihil durare potest tempore perpetuo: cum bene sol nituit, redditur Oceano, decrescit Phoebe, quae modo plena fuit, ventorum (or some say Venerum) feritas saepe fit aura levis...".

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