And it was actually from Londinium, so the writing is in Latin!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/tablets-unearthed-city-glimpse-roman-london-bloomberg
Right away I shared it with my brother, whose wife is a renowned classicist, specializing in things Etruscan, my Latin colleague at school, and another Latin-teaching friend at another school whose birthday it happened to be. She used it for review with her class.
Like everyone else in my family, I took two years of Latin. Somewhere around the subjunctive or another phase of the Gallic Wars, I decided to take German the next tear, so I put on the breaks. Truthfully, or should I say, verily, I would have made a good classicist; people have told me that. But four decades ago it was not a going thing, and I started my study of German, and am now trying to let others experience it.
But that's another post, and I find it fascinating that so much of Roman Britain is still being found. Doubtless Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are wielding shovels to find some ext that translated: LEAVE THE EMPIRE!
To quote Winne-the-Pooh, "Oh, bother!"
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