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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

A Roman senator was fifteen minutes late to the Senate on a day Cicero was giving a speech. He sat down and quietly asked the senator next to him what Cicero was talking about. The senator replied, "I don't know - he hadn't got to the verb yet!"