Talk:Roman jokes

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I don't get the 1st one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.166.116.164 (talk) 19:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I finally got it after thinking about it for a while, I think it means the emperor is also the son of the man's father, who had an affair with the emperor's mother.

Roman laughter
"Interestingly, Classical Latin has no words for smiling" Pretty certain the Latin verb ridēre means both to smile and to laugh. Likewise risus does double duty for the nouns smile and laughter. Just because they used the same word for both activities should not encourage a belief that they hadn't much facility with one of them. One should not suppose, by the same token, that Anglophones can't decide where to tell untruths or assume a recumbent posture. Nuttyskin (talk) 04:08, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


 * The Latin for "smile" is "subridere", whence the French "sourire". FangoFuficius (talk) 08:05, 16 May 2023 (UTC)