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Roman legionaries with specialist weapons, including sling bullets with taunts inscribed (lemmy.world)
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[–] Kyrgizion 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Catch!" was a popular one I hear.

[–] PugJesus 7 points 2 months ago

"Catch!" was very common! You can find some uh, really specific examples too though. Nothing quite like a bored soldier with a basic level of literacy!

In the case of Perusia, the news was a bit more sophisticated: “You’re done for, Lucius Antonius, you baldy”, “I seek Octavian’s ass”, “I seek Fulvia’s clitoris”.