Ancient Literacies

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

location: 9. 2. 26, in the portico that is before the garden, on the second pillar from
the right


61.CIL4.9987: D]IC MIHI / DAM]OET[A
size: 20 cm long4 cm high (each line)
location: 1. 6. 12, on outside of the northern wall


7.44: Ite domum pasti, si quis pudor, ite, iuuenci


62.CIL4.8701: SI PUDOR QUIS
size: 3.5 cm long0.3 1.5 cm high
location: the portico of the palaestra (2. 7), col. 83


8.70: carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi


63.CIL4.1982: CARMINIBUS / CIRCE SOCIOS / MUTAVIT / OLYXIS
size: unknown
location: on the outside of the north wall of the Chalcidicum of Eumachia
(7. 9. 1), opposite 7. 9. 62 6.
other notes: The line drawing provided inCILis from Wordsworth 1837 and
is certainly not to scale.


64.CIL4.4401: CARMIN[
size: unknown
location: 5. 5. 3, on the sixth column on the left side in the peristyle
other notes: In both this instance and the one below, I am doubtful that there is
enough inscribed to be sure of a quotation from Vergil.


65.CIL4.5304 CARM[
size: 1.2 cm high
location: 9.9.d e, on the wall of the street at an equal distance between the doors
other notes: see above, n. 63


Georgics


1.163 tardaque Eleusinae matris uoluentia plaustra


66.CIL4.8560: MATRIS ELEUSINAE
size: 16. 5 cm long2.25 high
location: the portico of the palaestra (2. 7), col. 17
other notes: I am doubtful that we should see this as an allusion to theGeorgics,
as the epitaph may have become standard, and the words appear here in the
reverse order from the way they are used in Vergil’s text.


67.CIL4.8610: MATRIS HELEUSINAE
size: 5.2 cm long0.5 1.2 cm high
location: the portico of the palaestra (2. 7), col. 33
other notes: see above, n. 65


Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii 317

Free download pdf