"Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945

[Jonathan Lighter]

In the recent film of _Coriolanus_ (2011), the words colorfully sprayed on
a bullet-scarred wall in the territory of the Volsci clearly read:

ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM.

That would have been in the fifth century BCE.

JL




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