IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.www.utubepublisher.inexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down111
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkTIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.www.utubepublisher.inIamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days ago“Vacerra spends hours in all the privies, sitting all day long. Vacerra doesn’t want a shit, he wants a dinner.” (Martial, XI.LXXVII) https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0506%3Abook%3D11%3Apoem%3D77
“Vacerra spends hours in all the privies, sitting all day long.
Vacerra doesn’t want a shit, he wants a dinner.”
(Martial, XI.LXXVII)
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0506%3Abook%3D11%3Apoem%3D77