Your Moment of Monday Sidewalk Zen

Phillyist is playing hooky from work this week - and while on our run for much needed mid-morning caffeine to get the blood pumping, we came across this bit of Latin someone had impressed in the sidewalk.

On coming home to ask the all-knowing Internet what it meant, we learned it was a bit of angry (and dirty!) invective from the classic Roman poet, Catallus, (specifically his Carmen XVI) .

Oh, Philly - where else would someone see wet cement and choose to immortalize not their name or some pithy bit of modern doggerel, but rather some antiquity-era lit crit? This is the kind of thing that makes us love you.

In fact, it makes us a little bit hot for you too.

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