Rustic and Rustique

Pardon My French meets Tricksy Twins

John Pettie Rustic Courtship

The Romans, who named themselves after a city, inclined towards an urban existence. Indeed, such was their esteem for megalopolitan life that they would, from time to time, sentence a minor malefactor of good family to a term of obligatory enjoyment of fresh air and sunshine. Latin-loving lawyers called this relegatio, and, in so doing, gave us the word ‘relegation’. Lesser mortals, however, referred to this form of exile as rusticatio.