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_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg) The Roman statesman Cicero had a folk etymological explanation for why we say nōbīscum and not cum nōbīs.
The joke is: cum nōbīs can easily be misunderstood as cunnō bīs which has a lewd meaning, that we are not going to explain here. |