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Chalk is the pen of fools, walls (their) paper
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN December 19, 2024
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1 comments:
My latin students liked it very much! Thank you! It's similar to that old inscription:
"Admiror, o paries, te non cecidisse ruinis qui tot scriptorum taedia sustineas"
(I'm surprised, wall, you didn't fall down, you who must hold all these nonsense words)
Sorry for my bad translation ;)
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