We couldn't find any paper to agree on.But I brought several samples home with me including this one.
I wouldn't want it on my bedroom wall but I wanted to work out what it said.
Scattered over various bits of the design I found words spoken by Cicero when he was giving an oration against the corrupt Roman senator Cataline: “Quousque, tandem, abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?” Cicero is wondering how much longer Cataline will abuse our (the senate/people's) patience.
Now the question is: did the designer of the wallpaper know what it meant?
Did he/she choose it because artistically it has shape and definition? Or is it a subversive comment on the political situation in Britain today?
I like to think it's the latter.
6 comments:
Good question, Liz! I wouldn't mind that paper in a bathroom!
Hilarious! Can we 'merkins borrow a roll or two to paper the White House and Congress?
Certainly Mary!
Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes! ;-)
If this sign to read you can, work good in matters Latin fast and fruitful get you can.
If you can read this sign, you can get a job in the fast paced, high-paying world of Latin! (From internet)
Interesting paper.
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