You mean that, chiselled out on a column somewhere, there's a message saying "Tell Michael Quinion that I don't give a fig if you use sycophant some way other other than as someone who grasses up fig smugglers."?

Just asking like. After all, they did find a grafitti with the Latin equivalent of "Kilroy was here" on a wall in Baku, of all places. Must have decided the quality of the oil wasn't good enough to pipe down to Roma, though, because they never took the place over. Come to think of it, they never even visited officially.