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You: Oh, The Senate Does Not Approve Of My Politics What Shall I Do

Me:

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Mosaic from Pompeii; circa 100 BC.

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the ladies call me the subjunctive mood the way I express desire, wishes, uncertainty, doubt and fear

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it's ovid's birthday today (20 march) btw. please celebrate by lying or being a pervert

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I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

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The gorgeous Bird Mosaic from the so-called House of the Birds in Italica, Spain, features 35 different species of birds.

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perhaps one of my all time favorite cicero letters

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this is taking me out

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Graffitis found at Pompeii, Before AD 79

Drawings of gladiators believed to have been made by children inspired by watching battles at Pompeii’s amphitheatre are among the latest discoveries in the ruins of the ancient Roman city.

The charcoal drawings were found during excavations at I’Insula dei Casti Amanti, a cluster of homes in Pompeii’s archaeological park that opened to the public for the first time on Tuesday.

Other drawings found on a long wall include the outline of three small hands, two figures playing with a ball, a hunting scene of an animal that appears to be a boar, and a scene that depicts two boxers lying on the ground.

Archaeologists also discovered the remains of two victims of the eruption that were found by the door in the House of the Painters at Work, named as such because the home is believed to have been undergoing a repaint at the time of the disaster.

The Pompeii ruins were discovered in the 16th century and the first excavations began in 1748. 

Photograph: Parco Archeologico Pompei

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Venus Victrix told me to make this