Quisquis amat: love slogan and remixes
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 24). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Pompeian witnesses before 79 CE; also attested at Rome
Region: Pompeii and Rome
Workbook date-sort bounds: unknown to 79 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A verse wishes lovers well and curses those who prohibit love. Numerous copies survive. Another poem changes the opening and threatens revenge on Venus for causing heartbreak.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
Numerous graffiti at Pompeii and Rome repeat the love formula; related verse alters its opening and sentiment.
What remains uncertain
Distributed informal repetition and adaptation are direct evidence; identifying the writers as workers, or reconstructing a single origin, remains unsupported.
Candidate-index family 12: Quisquis amat: love slogan and remixes
The workbook groups records 24 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Pompeian witnesses before 79 CE; also attested at Rome
Region: Pompeii and Rome
Shortlist uncertainty: Distributed informal repetition and adaptation are direct evidence; identifying the writers as workers, or reconstructing a single origin, remains unsupported.
Workbook revision note: Strong transmission evidence; social-class criterion remains unproved