AE 1968, 00164 = AE 1987, 00359 = Courtney 1995, 00029 = ZPE-79-159

Cerne age principio uenerandum numen adorans

Quos similes fecit nos manus artificis

Sub laeua posui Marcum me nomine Carpum

Qui procuraui auro sanctaeque Monetae

5

Sed iam cesso mihi senio hortante libenter

Et merui laudis bonae sub principe famam

Altera de parte situs est mihi karus Achilles

Prudens et doctus nostro qui Caesare dignus

Hunc merito iuuenem cernimus a memor[es]

10

Signum etiam posui nostri maioris Achi[llis]

In medio fulgens ut caelo stella Boo[tae]

Qui solus longe tutatus nobiliter [nos(?)]

1

In altera columna versuum incipientium fragmenta leguntur: quem Ẹ[---] / nymph[---] / feci et Ị[---] / mox Ị[---] / horto [---] / T[---]

9

memor[es] suppl. Schmidt; memor[ia] suppl. Reynolds, Vanderspoel

10

Achi[llis] suppl. Reynolds, Schmidt, Vanderspoel

11

Boo[tae] suppl. Schmidt; Boo[tes ...] suppl. Reynolds, Vanderspoel

12

[nos(?)] suppl. Schmidt dubit.

Regio I Latium et Campania / Località: Roma
Datazione: 100-300 d.C.

EDCS
EDH
EDR
TM

 

Reference basis text: AE 1968, 00164

Editing of the digital edition: E. Saltelli, 2011 - A. Prontera, 2022

 

Reynolds = J. M. Reynolds, Inscriptions from South Etruria, "Papers of the British School at Rome" 34, 1966, pp. 56-67

Schmidt = M. G. Schmidt, Textkritische Beiträge zu Carmina Latina Epigraphica I, "Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. Serie III. Rendiconti"72, 1999-2000, pp. 335-339

Vanderspoel = J. Vanderspoel, Two Officials of Septimius Severus, "Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik" 79, 1989, pp. 159-160

v. 1: Hexameter

v. 2: Pentameter

vv. 3-8: Hexameters

v. 9: Extra-text

vv. 10-12: Hexameters