AE 1996, 01704 = AE 2002, 01666 = AE 2016, 01851 = DefAfrByz 00004
Hoc opus imperium felix has prestitit arces
Magnanimique etiam Solomonis iussa dedere
Cui paruit Nonnus, qui condidit ista, tribunus.
Vrbs, domino laetare pio iamque aspice quantis
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Es subducta malis quantoque or[n]ata decore!
Maurorum tandem recipis subducta timore
Censuram, statum, ciues, ius, moenia, fastus
Atque suum nomen posuit <t>ibi regia coniux.
Iu(s)tiniani manu Maurorum gente fugata
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Omnia tempus abent elebant et ea[s i]ngentes.
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elebant et ea[s i]ngentes; flebant et <t>em[por]a gentes rest. Pringle 1981, Pringle; <r>elebant et fa[ta ia]centes rest. Hays
Provincia: Africa Proconsularis Località: Cululis / Ain Jelloula
Datazione: 540-543 d.C.
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Reference basis text: AE 1996, 01704
Editing of the digital edition: E. Saltelli, 2011 - A. Prontera, 2022
Hays = G. Hays, Sounds from a silent land: the Latin poetry of Byzantine North Africa, in S. T. Sevens, J. Conant (eds.), "North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam", Washington 2016, pp. 278-281
Pringle = D. Pringle, Two fortified sites in Byzantine Africa: Ain Djelloula and Henchir Sguidan, "Antiquté tardive" 10, 2002, pp. 269-282
Pringle 1981 = D. Pringle, The Defence of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab Conquest, I, Oxford 1981
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