07/08/2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Circus or fish market?

Peter Harvey links to this contribution by Tom Maguire, which finds a translator of a circus poster in Sitges struggling with the polysemous llotja and imagining a splendid fish market where a simple box was all that was required. Makes you wonder, though: maybe Juvenal has been misquoted on the moral decline of pagan Roman,…