I found an article in Yale Alumni magazine, entitled "Naughty Latin 101."
Underneath the High Street Bridge was some graffiti that read: Optimates Defloreantur ("May the best be deflowered." It's a sly off-color play on ancient Roman sloganeering, which would mean "May the best flourish" but with the de-, you get something else. Something you'd get at Pompeii, says the Yale professor quoted in the article.)
Thanks, Donald!
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Fantastic!
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