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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 4295546, member: 82549&quot;]Wow. Talk about memories rushing back from the abyss.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Okay, PRETEND we were talking about memories rushing back from the abyss.)</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was about 13 years old, taking a first-year Latin class, I went on one of those pre-packaged educational tours. This one was to Italy. This was--oh, my God!--fifty years ago. We went to Pompeii one day. Being a bit of an oddball, I immediately wandered off from the group and started exploring the place on my own. I came to this one house where there were about 10 or 12 people standing around. Inside was some sort of guard or uniformed guide who was standing next to a locked wall cabinet, about 3&#039; x 3&#039; or so, probably about 5&#039; off the ground. The guard held out his hand, and everyone put some money into it, so I did the same. After he collected a handful of change from everyone, he unlocked and opened the cabinet, revealing that very fresco that Jochen1 posted! I had never heard of Priapos at the time and assumed it was just some sort of risque, humorous decoration, wondered why someone would want that it their living room.</p><p><br /></p><p>How amazing to see it here after all those years!</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT. In the time it took me to type this, Jochen1 just beat me to the story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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