#bless your hearts furius and aurelius
i’m gonna be honest, whenever i’m feeling kinda meh, one thing that will always cheer me up is imagining ancient romans speaking with ridiculous southern united states accents
please imagine cicero addressing the senate with “well howwwwwwdy, y’all”
instead of catullus 16 beginning with “pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo” it starts off with “bless your hearts, furius and aurelius”
augustus reads ovid’s poetry and exiles him on the grounds that “it ain’t right”
and honestly i would love to hear “y’all’d’ve” come out of any of the ancients’ mouths