08-31-2017, 01:41 PM
(08-31-2017, 01:26 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote: The best examples are probably the sexual taunts moulded into sling bullets (glandes) from the siege of Perusia in 41BC. We could perhaps assume that taunts like these would be exchanged verbally as well, if the two sides got within close enough range.
These are from Lucius Antonius and Fulvia's side:
Laxe / Octavi / sede - "Limp Octavian, sit on this!"
[S]alv[e] / Octavi / felas - "Greetings Octavian, you suck dick!"
Pet(o) / Octav[i]a(ni) / culu(m) - "I'm after Octavian's arse!"
And from Octavian's men:
L(uci) A(ntoni) calve / Fulvia / culum pan(dite) - "Bald Lucius Antonius and Fulvia, spread your arses!"
Peto / [l]andicam / Fulviae - "I'm after Fulvia's clit!"
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Thanks I knew I'd get some good leads.
However ... what I can't understand is why when we seem to have so many examples of obscenities and lewd Roman verse, that we appear to have no record of soldiers insulting each other. I mean ... if you're going to adorn your city with phalluses ... why were they so coy at recording the insults which must have been similarly graphic?
Oh the grand oh Duke Suetonius, he had a Roman legion, he galloped rushed down to (a minor settlement called) Londinium then he galloped rushed back again. Londinium Bridge is falling down, falling down ... HOLD IT ... change of plans, we're leaving the bridge for Boudica and galloping rushing north.
