‘Only in Cambridge’: Homes Daubed with Latin Graffiti
Vandals spray-painted the new five-bedroom river-front houses with the words Locus in Domos Loci Populum.
Locals have said the messages, which appear to be a protest against the development, could “only happen” in the university city.
The homes, in Water Street, Chesterton, priced from £1.25m are on the site of an old pub.
Cambridge University Professor of Classics, Mary Beard, said: “This is a bit hard to translate, but I think what they’re trying to say is that a lovely place has been turned into houses.”
From: ‘Only in Cambridge’: Homes daubed with Latin graffiti — BBC
Also from Google Translate set on English-to-Latin:
…It kind of loses something in the machine translation, don’t you think?Report
“‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? People lookin’ like Romans, ‘ey go ta t’ouse?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbI-fDzUJXIReport
Kids these days.Report
“This is a bit hard to translate…”
So, basically the vandals don’t actually know Latin but want to look smart?Report
That feels like it could be used as a metaphor for a lot of things these days.Report
Freely translated, my guess would be the sentiment is ‘locals only’Report