Posh grafitti
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:21 am
A new luxury development in Cambridge has been found vandalised with graffiti.
In a surprising move the culprits decided to use Latin, painting the words “loci populum!” and “locus in domos” in large letters across the front and sides of the houses in Water Street, Chesterton.
Mary Beard, professor of classics at Cambridge University, told the BBC: “This is a bit hard to translate, but I think what they’re trying to say is that a lovely place has been turned into houses.”
The Latin phrases translate as “local people!” and “place of homes”. Other phrases daubed on to the buildings included “We [heart] our home” and the symbols for dollars, euros and the yen, followed by the phrase “go away”.
The six houses, built on the site of a pub, have gone on the market at a price of £1.25m each.
“House prices are a massive problem in Cambridge,” said Richard Taylor, a resident who has been campaigning on the development and related issues since it began. The average house price in Cambridge is about £500,000 – at least 12 times the average salary in the area.
