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Updated: May 8, 2025
While she is stigmatised as the cloacae of Britain, the philosopher looks into the future, and already beholds a nation, perpetuating the language of the brave and free; when the parent stock has perhaps ceased to be an empire; or is lingering on, like modern Greece, in the hopeless languor of decay and decrepitude.
So saying, the Roman made a sign on his forehead, moving the forefinger of his right hand first from above, below, and then from left to right. The Hebrew looked at him in astonishment. "Are you not a Roman?" "Yes, I am a Roman Christian." "Where do you live?" "Here under Rome, in the catacombs." He pointed to a hole in the ground, which resembled those that led down to the cloacae.
Bradley-Martin's sartorial kings and pseudo-queens, her dukes and DuBarrys, princes and Pompadours, have strutted their brief hour upon the mimic stage, disappearing at daybreak like foul night-birds or an unclean dream have come and gone like the rank eructation of some crapulous Sodom, a malodor from the cloacae of ancient capitals, a breath blown from the festering lips of half-forgotten harlots, a stench from the sepulcher of centuries devoid of shame.
Thence it poured down, cleansing, sluicing, working machinery of all sorts, through an infinite variety of capillary channels into the great drains, the cloacae maximae, and so carried the sewage out to the agricultural areas that surrounded London on every side.
We haven't got the chance of a snowball in hell. Wait a moment, professor MacHugh said, raising two quiet claws. We mustn't be led away by words, by sounds of words. We think of Rome, imperial, imperious, imperative. He extended elocutionary arms from frayed stained shirtcuffs, pausing: What was their civilisation? Vast, I allow: but vile. Cloacae: sewers.
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