Last word on the Latin graffiti in Cambridge...published at 17:39 British Summer Time 4 April 2017
Orla Moore
BBC Local Live
A final note on the Latin graffiti daubed on new luxury homes in Cambridge.
Vandals spray-painted the five-bedroom river-front houses in Water Street, Chesterton, with the words Locus in Domos, Loci Populum, which Google translates it as saying "local houses for local people".
It has a poignant message about Cambridge's housing problems, but university boffins are not amused - with one calling it "terrible Latin".
Cambridge blogger Richard Taylor said: "We do have our eccentrics in the city, but it doesn't seem to go together - the ability to write in Latin and being prepared to scrawl on buildings and cause massive amounts of damage."
Finally, we thought we'd share this tweet from Mike Yates - to all of you who ever studied Latin in school and remembered those tattered textbooks about Roman life:
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